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Summer swelter trend: West gets hotter days, East gets hot nights

The West is the fastest-warming region in the country during June, July and August, up 3 degrees on average since 1990.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Heatwaves rise off the asphalt and blur the image of a bicyclist riding the Prospector Rail Trail in West Bountiful, as temperatures topped 100 degrees on Tuesday, June 15, 2021.