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0:00I'm Ben Thomas with an AP News Minute. The heat dome that's been shattering March temperature records in the Southwest is going to linger and Seth Bornstein reports it's spreading into the Central US. And in size, it's getting to be one of the biggest in US history. Rivaling the 1930s dust bowl, it's a heat dome. Like I have lid on a pot. It's trapping the hot, stagnant air. And this high pressure is stuck in itself because the jet stream, which moves weather systems from west to east, it's pretty close to stuck. On the western end, if you follow the jet stream a little further west to Hawaii, you have storm after storm dumping, inches feet of rain on Hawaiian, something called a cone of low. That's all connected. That low pressure, that stormy system is stuck there. It may not be until April until we see this stuck pattern move on a little. That's AP science writer Seth Bornstein. And I'm Ben Thomas.