Southern California faces a heatwave with inland temperatures reaching up to 103 degrees and an Excessive Heat Warning in effect until Monday evening.

Similarly temperatures in Yuma, Arizona broke a 28-year record, reaching 112 degrees Fahrenheit, while more than 50 other heat records were broken throughout the American Southwest on that same Wednesday. Overall at least 125 locations from the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast have broken temperature records since the start of the month.

Unusually high temperatures forecast for the first week of October in parts of California are prompting state leaders to offer help.