Labor Day weather expected to be hot as temperatures soar across two-thirds of the United States

• Two-thirds of the US is expected to reach temperatures in the 90s and 100s this Labor Day weekend.
• That means the weekend will feel more like it did in July, the hottest month on global record.

Labor Day weekend weather is gonna be hot, with temperatures across more than half the US expected to skyrocket over the holiday.

Meteorologists at the National Weather Service predict much of the nation will reach temperatures in the 90s on Saturday and Sunday, with areas in the Midwest and South hitting triple digits.

That means this holiday weekend will feel more like July — the hottest month on global record — than September when the average national temperature is typically in the upper 60s.

Despite the heat wave — and also Hurricane Idalia, which has throttled the Southeast — experts are predicting record numbers of travelers this Labor Day weekend, CBS News reported. Major airports like LAX and ATL are expecting more than one million passengers to pass through this weekend.