![]() "Stay indoors and seek air-conditioned buildings," the weather service warned. The National Weather Service said record highs were possible from the Four Corners states and Texas to the Lower Mississippi Valley and South Florida. Meanwhile, heat warnings and advisories were in effect for more than 90 million Americans as record-breaking temperatures swept across the South with little relief in sight. ![]() No other major city among the 25 most populous in the United States has had a run of 110-degree days or 90-degree nights longer than Phoenix, weather historian Christopher Burt of the Weather Company told the Associated Press. It's likely a historic streak beyond Phoenix's borders. ![]() In Phoenix, the "Valley of the Sun" is accustomed to extreme summer conditions, but the city set a new record Tuesday: it has now endured 19 straight days with high temperatures of at least 110 degrees, which broke a record set in 1974, the weather service said. continued to swelter Tuesday as temperatures and heat indexes soared above 100 degrees over a large chunk of the nation from Southern California to Florida. Two states don't observe daylight saving time, Arizona and Hawaii.The southern tier of the U.S. on the second Sunday in March and ends at 2 a.m. Most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2 a.m. Daylight Saving Timeĭaylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of setting the clocks forward by one hour in the spring and set clocks back by one hour in autumn. It solely includes the two uninhabited islands of Baker Island and Howland Island (owned by US). The UTC-12:00 time zone is the only one that is entirely unpopulated. In MST, 6.7% and PST 16.6% of people live in those USA Time Zones. ![]() In the USA Time Zone of CST, 29.1% of people stay. Around 47.6% of people live in EST of the USA Time Zone. Most of the population live in the USA Time Zone of EST. The USA Time Zone of Pacific Standard Time is followed by California, Nevada, Washington (state) partially: Idaho, Oregon. States like Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Texas fall under the USA Time Zone of Mountain Standard Time. The states, which follow USA Time Zone of Central Standard Time (CST), are Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. The states that fall under Eastern Standard Time of USA Time Zone are Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. View the borders of the common time zones. ![]() They are Atlantic Standard Time (AST), Eastern Standard Time (EST), Central Standard Time (CST), Mountain Standard Time (MST), Pacific Standard Time (PST), Alaskan Standard Time (AKST), Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST), Samoan Standard Time (UTC-11), and Chamorro Standard Time (UTC+10) and these are the times that are observed in order from east to west. There are nine common time zones in the US. States have more than one time zone Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. By law, time in the United States (US) and its possessions is divided into nine standard time zones, with most of the United States observing the daylight saving time (DST) for the spring, summer, and fall months.Īs of Department of Transportation, the Federal Register and other sources, the United States is divided into six time zones: Alaska time, Pacific time, Central time and Eastern time, Hawaii-Aleutian time, and Mountain time. ![]()
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