A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and held the East in its hot and humid grip.
An excessive heat warning — the National Weather Service’s highest alert — was in effect for about 36 million people, or about 10% of the population, said NWS meteorologist Bryan Jackson. Dozens of locations in the West and Pacific Northwest tied or broke previous heat records.
Many areas in Northern California surpassed 110 degrees (43.3 C), with the city of Redding topping out at a record 119 (48.3 C). Phoenix set a new daily record Sunday for the warmest low temperature: it never got below 92 F (33.3 C).
A high temperature of 128 F (53.3 C) was recorded Saturday and Sunday at Death Valley National Park in eastern California, where a visitor died Saturday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized, officials said.
Hottest summer of your life so far
Coldest summer for the rest of your life
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, that’s depressing.
I’ve read that it probably won’t be, since we had El Niño this year too, making the year hotter than it otherwise would’ve been.
It’s not going to be fun next year when we’re not breaking quite as many heat records, and then we’ve got people saying “See? Last year was just a fluke. Climate change isn’t a big deal!”
Remind me one year! Or, y’know, - is that feature even in lemmy? Eh, whatever. We’ll see. :)
According to Ron DeSantis, none of this is happening. And if it is happening, it’s not because of climate change.
And if it is because if climate change, it is a good thing. And if it is not a good thing, it’s the gays’ fault.
Go woke get baked
You’re really asking for it if you go to Death Valley during a heat wave. It’s in the name.
I just don’t understand how you die going there on purpose. Like it’s in the name, are you not prepared?!?
People are kinda dumb.
We hit a record here in Seattle yesterday and are likely to tie one today. It’s usually in the high 70s at this time. It will be around 95°F today. Tomorrow will be hotter and likely set another record. Get to a cooling center if you don’t have AC. I honestly do not recall cooking centers being a thing prior to for our five years ago.
I just hit 100°F on 405. Good times.
My dad back in Georgia called me yesterday because he saw on the weather channel that we hit 90 and he thought that a tad odd. I told him that this is in some ways more brutal than summer in Atlanta because at least all those buildings have industrial central air. I’ve got two portable units running just to keep my bedroom bearable
I see all these “heat advisories” being issued where I live and elsewhere, for temperatures around 98-100 F. How much you want to bet in a few years those temps won’t be classified as heat advisories anymore, and it will be because corporate lobbyists managed to keep heat protections away from U.S. workers dying in the heat.
If trump wins, absolutely
