Ten-year-old Lilly Hwang-Geddes, left, of Ithaca, New York, plays in a fountain at the Yards Park on Thursday, July 5, in Washington. A record heat wave has been in the area for more than a week. 
Six-year-old Spencer Hwang-Geddes of Ithaca, New York, cools off at the Yards Park on Thursday. Weather forecast predicted the hot weather will last through Sunday with possible daily triple-digit temperatures. 
A boy enjoys the waterfall in the Yards Park fountain on Thursday. 
Chilren play in the fountain away form Thursday's scorching temperatires at the Yards Park. 
Shannon Mack and Bobby Rush keep cool with their dog, Bubba, in a pool at their apartment in Chicago on Wednesday. 
Keshyra Pitts, 7, plays in the spray of a hydrant in Chicago on Wednesday. 
Lori Bryant holds her 7-month-old nephew Justin Tackett as Marianne Oliver cools him down during the Fourth of July parade in Downers Grove, Illinois. 
Residents find relief from the heat at the McCarren Park pool in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday, July 3. 
Abbi Buck, of Cookeville, Tennessee, gulps a bottle of water as sweat drips down her face as she visits the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Tuesday. 
Katie Kiang finds shelter from the heat to study for the Graduate Record Examinations inside an air-conditioned mall in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Monday. Kiang's home is one of the thousands without electricity after storms hit hard. 
Gene Holmes splashes into a quarry lake after jumping from a rope swing on Monday, July 2, at the Beaver Dam Swimming Club in Cockeysville, Maryland. 
Without electricity to operate the pumps at his gas station in Silver Spring, Maryland, Ken Duckson fills a cooler with ice he cannot sell because his cash registers will not work. 
Aziz Taylor, 11, plays in a water fountain Monday in the Capitol Heights neighborhood of Washington. 
Lifeguard Niko Garcia jumps into a pool in Washington on Monday to try and beat the heat wave gripping the nation. 
A boy plays in a water fountain in Washington on Sunday, July 1, amid a record-setting heatwave in the eastern United States. 
Bryan Moran sprays his dog, Rocky, with water in Washington's Columbia Heights on Sunday. Eastern cities were forecast to approach or break record-high temperatures. 
Linda Gordon, right, finds relief from the extreme heat with an ice pack in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, June 30. 
Residents crowd onto the beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, in the powerful heat on Saturday. 
Beachgoers lie in the sun at Coney Island on Saturday. 
A boy plays in the ocean at Coney Island on Saturday. 
Workers brave the high heat to repair a storm-damaged roof at the Park Tanglewood apartments in Riverdale, Maryland, on Saturday. 
Beads of sweat roll down Francisco Hernandez's face as he works to repave Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday, June 29. 
Children play in the water at Six Flags Over Georgia in Atlanta, where temperatures topped 100 degrees on Friday. 
- NEW: Nearly 155,000 customers are out of power Sunday
- NEW: A 16-month-old Indiana girl is released from a hospital
- Cooler weather could be accompanied by storms, with large hail and strong winds
- The cold front will continue moving south through Tuesday
(CNN) -- At long last, a cold front will snap a stubborn heat wave that has roasted much of the country for more than a week.
However, the front is also expected to bring storms as it moves through the Midwest and Northeast on Sunday.
The front has already delivered some relief to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. Chicago, for example, should enjoy a temperature of about 82 degrees by late Sunday afternoon -- down from 100 degrees earlier in the weekend.
The forecast high for St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday, was 97 -- hot enough, but a slight bit of relief for the city, which on Saturday marked its 10th consecutive day of temperatures at or above the century mark.
It's 100 degrees outside (or worse). How's a fur-covered pup to cope? CNN iReporters from around the United States have been sharing photos of their best friends cooling off, and let's face it: They're too cute not to post.Here, Prim the Afghan hound manages to look elegant while relaxing in a baby pool in Gahanna, Ohio.
Beautiful standard poodle Gracie has water up to her shoulders in her family's above-ground backyard pool in Barberton, Ohio. 
Dexter, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, decides it's too hot even to swim in Constant Lake in Ontario, Canada. 
Four-month-old German shepherd Zhik naps on a float in his family's pool in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
Flossy, a 5-year-old Maltese, captains a boat raft off the shores of Destin, Florida. 
Year-old black lab Jackson enjoys his baby pool in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 
It's not just American dogs that need to cool off. Sandro Capannolo spotted this pup taking a dip in a fountain in Rome. And Istvan Szemes of Hungary shared a video of his German shepherd gleefully splashing around in a baby pool.Is it unbearably hot where you are? Show us how you -- and your pets -- are staying cool.
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Food runs low after devastating storms A heat advisory remained in effect Sunday for eastern Kansas; southern portions of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio; all of Kentucky; and western West Virginia, according to the National Weather Service. Also under a heat advisory were parts of Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas.
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Heat advisories, watches and warnings were posted for portions of 11 states -- less than half the number of states that have seen them the last few days, said CNN meteorologist Sarah Dillingham.
The front will reduce temperatures into the 80s for Chicago, New York and Washington, and into the 90s for St. Louis by Monday, she said.
The cold front will continue moving south through Monday and Tuesday, CNN meteorologist Alexandra Steele said. Storms associated with the front could bring large hail and strong winds, she said.
Areas near Washington and spots in Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia were at "slight risk" for storms, Dillingham said, with hail and high winds being the greatest threat.
On Saturday, the weather service received more than 160 reports of high winds, she said.
One person died and a second was injured in the east-central Missouri town of Cuba on Saturday in storms, according to the weather service's Storm Prediction Center. Damage including building collapses, vehicle rollovers and downed power lines were reported, the center said. Another injury was reported Saturday in Mifflinburg, Pennsyvlania, officials said.
But more hot weather may be on the horizon.
"As this ridge breaks down over the East, the West will start seeing another ridge of high pressure build," pushing temperatures into the 90s and possibly 100s in Montana, eastern Oregon and Utah, Dillingham said.
The heat wave has left scores dead and hundreds of thousands without power -- many of them following a round of severe storms that swept the Mid-Atlantic states on June 29.
Nationwide, there have been more than 4,500 daily record highs in the last 30 days, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Also, the heat has brought nearly 240 all-time record highs between June 23 and July 5, Steele said Saturday. The heat has buckled roads in some areas.
Nearly 155,000 customers in 10 states and Washington were without power Sunday. Some have lacked electricity for more than a week.
The hardest-hit state continues to be West Virginia, where nearly 75,000 customers had no power Sunday. Because utilities typically define each residential and business account as a customer, the actual number of people affected was higher.
Sizzling temperatures baked parts of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic on Saturday. Saturday's high of 107 in St. Louis broke a 103-degree mark set in 1936, said Butch Dye, hydrometeorologist technician for the National Weather Service.
Temperatures topped 100 degrees Saturday in a swath stretching from south-central Iowa to the Chicago area to Louisville, Kentucky, to Virginia, the weather service said. A high of 105 in Washington on Saturday marked the second-hottest day on record for the city and the 10th straight day of temperatures above 95.
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Saturday's death in Cuba, Missouri, came as debris struck a woman's car in a grocery store parking lot during a severe storm, CNN affiliate KMOV reported.
A 4-month-old girl in Greenfield, Indiana, died Saturday after being left in a car for an "extended period of time," police Chief John Jester said. While it wasn't clear how hot it had been inside the car, temperatures in that community of 20,000 people reached 103 degrees. Greenfield is about 25 miles west of Indianapolis.
The baby's grandfather found the young girl and rushed her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her father, Joshua Stryzinski, was later arrested and charged with neglect of a dependent, resulting in death. Jester said that charge may change after detectives meet with prosecutors.
About 25 miles northwest, in the town of Fishers, Meg E. Trueblood was arrested Saturday for felony neglect of a dependent after her 16-month-old unattended daughter was pulled from a car at a shopping center, police said.
The temperature inside the vehicle reached 124 degrees, and the baby was inside for about an hour, said police spokesman Tom Weger. An officer broke a window to reach the child.
The girl was upgraded to stable condition Saturday night, and was released from the hospital Sunday to her grandmother, Weger said Sunday.
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CNN's Gregory Clary and Maggie Schneider contributed to this report.
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