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WASHINGTON - The National Park Service closed the Washington Monument on Monday and Tuesday because of extreme heat . In an ...

Tuesday will be the hottest day of the week, with highs expected to reach nearly 100 degrees and feels-like temperatures up ...

As the high temperature in D.C. is expected to hit 100°, with a heat index as high as 110°, the Washington Monument is closed ...

Visitors were also barred from the monument Monday as temperatures neared 100 degrees that day. Tuesday is expected to see a high of 99 degrees.

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As temperatures approached the high 90’s on Monday, Washington area residents braced for a few days under a “heat dome” that has engulfed a large swath of the country.