Heat doesn’t just mean canceled events. It also poses a health risk. If you can’t afford to cool the whole house, make a “cool space” to sleep in.

Beaches were filled Monday as daytime temps reached 95, just shy of a record for the date. Some relief is in sight late Monday into Tuesday, when showers are forecast to move into the area. But the heat will stick through the end of the week.

The first heat wave of the summer has hit Boston, and people are braced for it. Temperatures could reach 100 degrees over the next few days, although a sea breeze on Monday kept Boston slightly cooler than inland parts of the state.

Tens of millions of people across the Midwest and East braced Sunday for another sweltering day of dangerously hot temperatures as a rare June heat wave continued to grip parts of the U.S. Almost all of the Northeast from North Dakota to Maine was under some type of heat advisory Sunday.

Tens of millions of people across the Midwest and East braced Sunday for another sweltering day of dangerously hot temperatures as a rare June heat wave continued to grip parts of the U.S.

Tens of millions of people across the Midwest and East endured dangerously hot temperatures again on Sunday as a sprawling June heat wave gripped much of the U.S.