Pacific north-west heatwave continues with Idaho and Montana in firing line

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Much of the US Pacific north-west remained under an extreme heatwave as the weekend came to a close, with the National Weather Service calling temperatures intense, prolonged, record-breaking, unprecedented, abnormal and dangerous.

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