2023-07-17 19:58:19
From southern Florida to the Gulf Coast to the Southwest, more than 80 million people are still on an excessive heat warning, the NWS said. The heat, which poses health risks, is expected to continue for several days.
In Phoenix, in the southwestern state of Arizona, 45 degrees were reached on Sunday followingnoon – for the city it was the 17th straight day with high temperatures above 43 degrees. 34 degrees Celsius were already measured in the morning hours – also a new high. The city has an extreme heat warning until Wednesday evening.
Highs expected in Death Valley
In the famous Death Valley in California, one of the hottest places in the world, it was around 53 degrees Celsius at the Furnace Creek Ranch on Sunday. This is exactly where the hottest day on earth to date was measured on July 10, 1913 at around 56.7 degrees. However, experts attribute this result to an error in observation. The previous officially registered maximum was 54.4 degrees in 2020 and 2021.
IMAGO/ZUMA Wire/David Becker This thermometer shows 55 degrees in Death Valley – albeit on an unofficial display
In the last few days, visitors have gotten an impression of the “life-threatening daytime heat” according to the NWS, which is expected to last until Tuesday evening. Some also gathered to witness a new temperature high. “It’s my first time here and I think it’s really cool to experience the hottest day on earth for the first time,” a visitor told Archyde.com regarding a possible new temperature high. Rangers stood by nearby in case anyone got heatstroke.
Almost 38 degrees at 1,645 meters above sea level
There was also a new high in Idyllwild, east of Los Angeles. In the city, which is 1,645 meters above sea level, the highest temperature ever recorded was recorded on Saturday at 37.7 degrees.
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In Salt Lake City, the capital of the state of Utah, the thermometer climbed to 41 degrees Celsius on Sunday. The previous high for July 16 was 39 degrees. For the first time ever, the Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning for Miami, Florida. Because of the mixture of heat and humidity, a “perceived” temperature of 44 degrees was measured.
Saving electricity in Houston
Residents of the city of Houston in the state of Texas were called upon to save energy until Monday between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. (local time) in order to relieve the power grid. “This heat wave is not typical desert heat,” the NWS Las Vegas office said on Twitter on Thursday. “Their long duration, the extreme daytime temperatures and warm nights” are unusual, according to the weather service.
Archyde.com/Go Nakamura In Houston, Texas, people were urged to conserve electricity between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m
A heat dome has formed over the southern United States, a high pressure area that traps the heat like a lid in a region. Heat is the deadliest weather phenomenon in the United States most years.
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In the summer of 2021, a heat dome had brought Canada and the western United States an unprecedented heat wave. A study by the research group World Weather Attribution (WWA) found that this would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change.
Five dead in floods
In the north-east of the Landes, meanwhile, there was severe flooding as a result of heavy rainfall, and several cars were swept away by the water masses. According to the local fire department, regarding 170 liters of rain per square meter fell in the eastern state of Pennsylvania, near the border with New Jersey.
Five people died there in a deadly flash flood, and two children aged nine months and two years were still being sought. The mother of the two children was among the dead. The children’s father was able to bring himself and his four-year-old son to safety “as if by a miracle”.
The mother and grandmother tried to save the other two small children, but were swept away by the water masses. The authorities had made it clear that they did not really expect to find any survivors.
Relaxation expected for Monday
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday urged state residents not to travel until the rains have passed: “Your car can go from a safe place to a place of death” if it’s swept away by a flash flood becomes.
Archyde.com/Brian Snyder Montpelier, the capital of the state of Vermont, was particularly affected by severe flooding
Rains were expected to ease on Monday, but nonetheless have wreaked havoc across much of the Northeast in recent days. The state of Vermont in particular reported severe flooding in its capital, Montpelier.
Wildfires continue in Canada
In addition to extreme heat and heavy rainfall in the USA, neighboring Canada to the north is also suffering from high temperatures and drought. For months, people have been fighting the worst forest fires in the country’s history. According to the authorities, more than 100,000 square kilometers of forest and other landscapes have already been burned – an area larger than Hungary.
After the death of a Canadian firefighter on Thursday, a firefighter also succumbed to injuries sustained while fighting the blaze over the weekend, according to rescue workers in the Northwest Territories.
Although individual extreme events cannot be directly traced back to a specific cause, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change it is clear that extreme weather events such as floods, storms and heat are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of the climate crisis. This means: Precipitation and storms are getting heavier, heat waves are getting hotter and droughts are getting drier.
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