2023-07-30 14:09:00
Southern California is in the throes of a heat wave, and it’s tempting to take a dip in a backyard pool. Even for a bear.
Police in the town of Burbank responded to a report of a bear in a residential neighborhood, and the animal was found sitting in a hot tub behind one of the homes.
After cooling off, the bear climbed a wall and headed for a tree behind the house, police said in a statement on Friday, June 28.
Police released video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is regarding 10 miles north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
Burbank police have issued several advisories to the public to avoid bears and keep all trash and food safe so as not to encourage bears to come near their homes.
Monsoon rains, the cure for the heat wave in California
The historic heat wave that hit the southwestern United States in July, ravaging the population and baking brick walls, has begun to subside with the late arrival of the monsoon rains.
Forecasters anticipate that by Monday, July 31, the population of the Phoenix metropolitan area will begin to see high temperatures drop below 43.3 degrees Celsius for the first time in a month.
But not on Saturday, July 29. Soaring temperatures in the desert city of more than 1.6 million residents topped 43.3 degrees Celsius for the 30th straight day, according to the National Weather Service. The previous record streak of at least 43.3 degrees lasted 18 days in 1974.
There are greater chances that this Sunday there will be monsoon storms that will cool the weather. However, the Weather Service warned that the rains might cause dangerous winds, dust storms and flash flooding. Flash rains running down heat-hardened surfaces can quickly fill normally dry streams.
This week, the overnight low at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport dipped below 32.2 degrees for the first time in 16 days, finally allowing people to take a break from the sweltering heat once the sun goes down.
Temperatures are also expected to drop in Las Vegas, Albuquerque and even Death Valley, California, where the Weather Service had forecast a high of 50 degrees Celsius for Saturday and a low of 45 Celsius for Tuesday, August 1. with a slight chance of rain.
Also in California, heat is expected to exceed 37.7 degrees in parts of the San Joaquin Valley from Saturday to Monday, according to the National Weather Service in Hanford, California.
California at risk from winds and fires
Santa Barbara County was forecast to see gusty winds in the evening that would increase the danger of fire-friendly weather, the Los Angeles weather forecaster said. Hot and dry weather was also forecast in all the surrounding valleys, low mountains and desert areas.
In Riverside County, more than 1,300 people were ordered to evacuate their homes and 1,400 more faced evacuation notices as crews battled a wildfire that destroyed 8.3 square kilometers in the community of Aguanga, regarding 96 kilometers northeast of San Diego, authorities said.
According to the media, a firefighter suffered injuries in the so-called Bonny Fire, which was 5 percent contained, authorities said.
The downward trend began Wednesday night, July 26, when Phoenix recorded its first major monsoon storm since the season’s traditional start on June 15. Although more than half of the city’s metropolitan area did not see a single drop fall, some eastern suburbs were battered by strong winds, dust devils and localized downpours that dumped up to 1 inch of rain.
Scientists estimate that July will be the hottest month on record, and likely the warmest human civilization has ever seen. Extreme heat is now gripping the eastern part of the country following soaring temperatures have moved from the mid-north region to the mid-Atlantic, where records are already being broken.
The heat wave is part of extreme weather events across the United States this month, including flash flooding in Pennsylvania and parts of the Northeast.
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