2024-07-04 13:55:52
A heat wave con temperatures exceeding 40 degrees scorches the west and south of USAwith particular virulence in northern California, where thousands of people have had to be evacuated from their homes due to the high risk caused by the forest fires declared in the area.
“A dangerous heat wave will affect much of the Westwhile oppressive heat and humidity also stifled areas from the southern Plains to the Mid-Atlantic,” the National Weather Service (NWS) reported in its latest bulletin.
Las high temperatures are concentrated mainly in the interior and northern California, with Thermometers fluctuating between 40.5 and 46.1 degrees Celsius.
Rescue teams are deployed in California’s Butte County, the county hardest hit by the heatwave, where a state of emergency has been declared in response to a fire that has scorched more than 1,200 hectares since Tuesday night “and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
Meanwhile, in cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, protocols have been activated with the opening of so-called “cooling centers” to escape the excessive heat and offer an air-conditioned shelter to thousands of homeless people during peak hours.
The NWS estimated “conditions of dangerously high heat “over a long period” in areas such as the Owens Valley in eastern California, where the mercury could reach 110 degrees.
In the neighboring state of Nevada, Cities like Las Vegas, Pahrump and Barstow will exceed 45 degrees in the coming dayswhile In Death Valley National Park, temperatures are not expected to drop below 50..
It is estimated that more than 110 million people 21 US states are under threat of “heat-related warnings and advisories”“, according to the NWS.
The US meteorological department predicts “Record and dangerous” heat for Thursday, coinciding with the celebrations for Independence Day and which will extend beyond the weekend.
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2024-07-04 13:55:52