Dangerously hot temperatures continued across much of the western United States Friday as another heat record was shattered in Phoenix and power grids were strained in California.
The U.S. West has endured brutally hot weather this week, with records falling such cities as Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Palm Springs, Calif., and Denver, which on Tuesday and Wednesday experienced the earliest occurrence of consecutive days with temperatures reaching at least 100 degrees.
While thunderstorms were expected to cool things off in Colorado on Friday, elsewhere around the region the heat wave continued unabated.
In Phoenix, the mercury hit 117 degrees at about 1:50 p.m., marking a second consecutive day of record highs following Thursday’s reading of 118 degrees.
The city also tied daily heat records on Tuesday and Wednesday at 115 degrees.
In California, life-threatening temperatures also continued into Friday.
The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for a large area of northern California, including cities such as San Jose and Santa Rosa, warning of temperatures of well over 100 degrees.
“Temperatures will be well above normal,” the NWS said. “While temperatures cool slightly on Friday near the coast, they will still be hot across the interior.”
The latest warning came a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency due to the heat wave, and California ISO, manager of the state’s power grid, extended a statewide “flex alert” asking consumers to conserve electricity during the evening hours, allowing worker to relieve stress on grids.
The state was also dealing with outbreaks of wildfires amid the searing heat. State fire officials reported eight wildfires ongoing in the state involving a total of about 1,500 acres.
Parts of the Midwest also continued to swelter on Friday.
In St. Louis, the city recorded its first 100-degree day in nearly three years as intermittent power outages struck parts of the city.
Electric utility Ameren, which serves 1.2 million customers in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois, reported around 1,500 homes and businesses were without power at 5 p.m.
The NWS warned that dangerous heat is expected in the St. Louis metro area through Sunday with heat index values over 100 each day.
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So . . .when tens of millions of duped citizens need to recharge their shiny “green” electrically dependent cars, how does the green energy policy of wind mills, solar panels, and fairy dust with happy thoughts plan to satisfy the requirements of an already deficient and overtaxed electric grid? It’s like the end goal is a half-baked version of the Berlin Wall, not necessarily of brick and barbed wire but with the absence of personal mobility.
And when those cars CAN’T get charged, what will folks do, to get to and from work, or to and fro the stores!
DRIVE GAS VEHICLES they no longer own (cause their wokism told them to sell it off)??
“In California, life-threatening temperatures also continued into Friday”. The temperatures are “life threatening” because green energy cannot provide enough energy for communist California. So, in essence, liberals with their “green agenda” / “green energy” are life threatening to civilization. Isn’t liberalism beautiful, in that it destroys society, with green energy, no law and no order!
AND this is why i have lost all sympathy FOR THEM!
They still won’t admit that bullying Southern California Edison to close San Onofre, instead of suing Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for charging them $1 billion for a faulty steam generator, was a boneheadedly stupid idea. Now they want to close Diablo Canyon.
The 800 pound gorilla in the room for the green wet dream is land use: 450 times more land than for nuclear.
The 8,000 pound elephant in the room is storage. 400-1200 watt hours’ storage per average watt of demand. At today’s price and reliability (from Tesla’s PowerWall2 catalog), for a 1,700 GWe all-electric American energy economy, the cost would be only FOUR TO TWELVE TIMES TOTAL US GDP EVERY YEAR!
See http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Worse.html and http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Nuclear.html