2023-07-16 22:14:03
The heat wave that hits the southern United States keeps one in four citizens in the country under alert, while in the northeast regarding 40 million people face a moderate risk of heavy rains and even floods.
In South Florida’s Miami-Dade County, an “excessive heat” warning was triggered following a forecast of 111.92 degrees Fahrenheit. According to local meteorologists, this is the first time such a warning has been issued there.
From south Florida, on the southeast coast, to the southwest of the country, 80 million Americans were on Sunday alert from the National Weather Service (NWS), according to which the embarrassing situation is going away. to extend throughout the week.
Temperatures will approach highs of between 99.86 and 109.94 degrees Fahrenheit in the interior of California, and up to 114.98 degrees in the southern desert of that state, as well as in southern Nevada and Arizona.
The Heat.gov website, launched by President Joe Biden’s Administration to inform the population regarding the risks associated with extreme heat, had already predicted that this wave of high temperatures was going to be “extremely dangerous” in the Southwest over the weekend. and was to expand eastward followingwards.
“Take it seriously and avoid spending time outdoors,” pointed out that page, which recalls that in the last 30 days 98.9 million Americans have been subject to a heat alert.
In Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, the local meteorological service recalled that although the extreme heat affects the entire population, the most vulnerable are children and the elderly, people with chronic illnesses and pregnant women.
In Las Vegas, they also insisted that the situation is not normal. “It is not typical desert heat due to its long duration, extreme daytime temperatures and hot nights. This heat should be taken seriously by everyone, including those who live in the desert,” its weather service said this past week.
Heat, according to the NWS, is the leading cause of weather-related deaths and injuries in the United States. In 2022 it caused 148 deaths, below the average of 153 per year registered since 2013.
But high temperatures are not the only extreme phenomenon that the country is going through these days. In the northeast, according to the NWS, the moderate risk of abundant rains affects regarding 40 million people this Sunday, with the potential for flooding.
“There is also marginal risk in Florida, the central Gulf Coast and even southern Arizona,” it added on its website, while parts of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, in the Northeast, they are under a tornado watch.
On Saturday, the Union of Conscious Scientists (UCS) had estimated that 143 million of the roughly 332 million people in the US were under an extreme weather alert. Your tool counts those affected by wildfires, floods, tropical storms or maximum heat.
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