Dominique Lynch on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 views Daniel Arsham's Unearthed, Bronze Eroded Melpomene, on display during Daniel Arsham: Relics in the Landscape exhibition, the first UK museum display of work by the highly acclaimed North American, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)

The northeastern United States sweltered this week in a scorching summer heat wave, complete with stagnant, sticky air and no winds for relief, forecasters said. Even in a summer already filled with stretches of very hot weather, this week will be stubbornly brutal, with no relief in sight until the weekend brings thunderstorms to the region, they said. "Plain and simple, this week may feel the worst of any week for this summer in the Northeast," said Accuweather.com meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. (Reuters)

Madagascan sunset setting over the 98-foot-tall baobab trees of the Avenue of the Baobabs located in Menabe, Madagascar on August 2020. (Photo by Kim Paffen/MediaDrumImages)

People take part in mass water fights during the first day of Songkran, or Thai New Year, on Khao San Road in Bangkok on April 13, 2023. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Phoot)

American model and actress Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski attends the Jacquemus Spring Summer 2020 show on June 24, 2019 in Valensole, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)

People are cooling off at a water park in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, on July 8, 2023. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Carrion crows sit on poles around a field on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, early Monday, June 26, 2023. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)

Former Division I volleyball star Kayla Simmons in the second decade of July 2023 wowed her fans in a stunning bikini snap on social media. Kayla has been called the world's sexiest volleyball star. (Photo by @kaylasimmmons/Instagram)