France is rushing air conditioners to hospitals as drought, wildfires and extreme heat grip Europe.

New York City and the Northeast will see temperatures surge this week as another wave of sultry weather shifts across the eastern US and southern Canada.

Heat is spreading across the western US, with the most intense conditions concentrated in the central and northern Rocky Mountains and the northern Great Plains. Heat advisories, warnings and watches stretch from Nevada to northeastern Minnesota, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather-roiling El Niño that emerged across the Pacific last month has continued to build and will likely be one of the strongest in more than 75 years, the US Climate Prediction Center said.

Strong winds and dry thunderstorms are raising the risk of fast-moving wildfires across much of the US West, where forecasters warned conditions will favor new ignitions and rapid fire spread through Thursday.

Temperatures are set to rise across Los Angeles and parts of the southwestern US later this week.

Heavy rain will trigger flood watches from Ohio to southeastern Massachusetts, including New York City, and as far south as North Carolina, according to the National Weather Service.

Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands are being threatened by a super typhoon for the second time this year.

New York City will have a cooler, soggier Sunday now that the massive heat dome across the US East that taxed power grids and snarled transit has started to crack, while lingering high temperatures in Washington and across the Mid-Atlantic triggered air quality warnings.

A dangerous heat wave is expected to engulf the eastern US in the coming days, threatening power grids just as a critical slate of World Cup football matches is scheduled heading into the Fourth of July weekend.

Overnight weather models point to a warmer-than-expected end of June and beginning of July, boosting cooling demand, according to the Commodity Weather Group LLC.

The Great Lakes and large parts of Ontario and Quebec are forecast to see average temperatures as much as 8F (4C) degrees above normal through June 29 to July 3, according to Commodity Weather Group.

The fire threat across the US West will rise Friday and remain dangerous through Saturday for many areas, including Northern California, as lightning strikes risk igniting dry vegetation.

More than 63 million Americans in a Northeast Corridor that spans Washington, through New York, to Boston are threatened by wild weather on Thursday, including severe thunderstorms and damaging winds.

The US West and Gulf Coast are set to broil this summer while the rest of the nation may face dreary and cool days — thanks in part to El Niño.

Tropical Storm Arthur is expected to bring “life-threatening flooding” throughout the southeastern US as it moves across Texas, leaving torrential downpours in its wake and possibly spawning tornadoes in the region.

As the US Gulf coast braces for flooding, there’s a moderate level 4 risk of severe thunderstorms across central Illinois and Indiana.

Tropical storm and flood warnings are in effect along the Texas and Louisiana coastlines as a weather system strengthens and threatens to bring torrential downpours.

Louisiana and Texas, including Houston, face several days of heavy rain, bringing a risk of floods as a potential tropical storm tries to organize in the western Gulf of Mexico.

Heat is engulfing both the East and West coasts of the US as the World Cup heads into its first weekend, after kicking off in Mexico City on Thursday.