Over 30 million under heat alerts in the West this weekend
The western US will bake in record-breaking heat this weekend. All-time records are in jeopardy, Meteorologist Allison Chinchar has the latest forecast.
Posted: Jul 10, 2021 5:41 PM
Posted By: CNN
Over 30 million people are under heat alerts across western states as temperatures are forecast to soar well into the triple digits this weekend.
Nearly the entire state of California will be impacted by this heat wave, in addition to major metro areas in the Southwest. Numerous daily temperature records will be broken and some all-time records may also be in jeopardy. High pressure will continue to dominate the southern Great Basin and Mojave Desert, producing a major heat wave into early next week, the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Las Vegas said. All-time record high temperatures will be rivaled or exceeded in some areas.
By DAISY NGUYEN
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â Firefighters struggled to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave hits the U.S. West this weekend, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas.
On Friday, Death Valley National Park in California recorded a staggering high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54 Celsius) and could reach the same high on Saturday. If verified, the 130-degree reading would be the hottest high recorded there since July 1913, when the same Furnace Creek desert area hit 134 F (57 C), considered the highest reliably measured temperature on Earth.
The Beckwourth Complex â two lightning-caused fires burning 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Lake Tahoe â showed no sign of slowing its rush northeast from the Sierra Nevada forest region after doubling in size between Friday and Saturday.
Save energy now: California grid in danger after Oregon wildfire knocks out power lines
Sacramento Bee 2 hrs ago Daniel Hunt, Dale Kasler, and Vincent Moleski The Sacramento Bee, The Sacramento Bee
Jul. 10 California s grid operator issued a plea for Californians to conserve energy usage Saturday after a fire in southern Oregon tripped interstate transmission lines, siphoning a significant amount of power needed as California endured the strongest heat wave of the summer.
The California Independent System Operator said during a Saturday news conference that three transmission lines on the California-Oregon Intertie were taken offline by the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon, and the state has lost as many as 4,000 megawatts of power into California s grid.
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Wildfires burned an unprecedented 4.3 million acres across California in 2020.PHOTO: AFP
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