PHOENIX – In the wake of the hottest August day ever recorded in Phoenix, an ongoing extreme heat warning has been extended through the weekend.

The National Weather Service (NWS) activated the warning, which covers the Valley and most of southwestern Arizona, late last week.

It was scheduled to expire Friday at 8 p.m., but now it will run at least through Tuesday evening.

Why was metro Phoenix extreme heat warning extended?

“The main reason we extended the extreme heat warning is because we’re going to continue to see areas of major heat risk into early next week,” Gabriel Lojero of the NWS in Phoenix told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Friday afternoon.

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