Summer temperatures are sticking around for longer in cities across the U.S., according to a new Climate Central study published on Wednesday, forcing Americans to endure intense heat for more than week longer on average than they used to.

A few Louisiana cities are among those to see the most dramatic change.

The Climate Central analysis, which compares temperature data from 1970 to 2024 across 247 major U.S. cities, found that summer-like temperatures stretch later into the fall in a vast majority — 92% — of the cities surveyed.

Among the 227 cities where summers are getting longer, hot weather drags on for an average of 10 days later now compared to the early 1970s. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the most dramatic case, summer is nearly two months longer.

While cities in Florida and

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