The State of the Climate in Numbers
The State of the Climate in Numbers
A suffocating heat wave that has brought temperatures that are fatal and broken records for high temperatures has devastated the southern and southwestern regions of the United States. This section presents the findings of the statistics about the impact that the heat is having on people in the United States.
At this time, more than one hundred million individuals across the United States are under the protection of heat warnings and heat advisories issued by the National Weather Service.
It is anticipated that temperature records will be broken over the next weekend in 45 distinct places, the majority of which are located in southern or western states like Texas and Nevada, along with Idaho and Oregon.
Heat advisories and excessive heat warnings will be in force for a total of 25 million people across the state of California this coming weekend.
It is projected that the temperature would reach 130 degrees or more in Death Valley National Park, getting dangerously near to the world record temperature of 134 degrees, which was set there in 1913.
There is a chance that Las Vegas will have three days in a row with highs above 115 degrees,
which is something that has only happened once before, and that was in the year 2005. On Sunday, it is forecast that the temperature will come within a few degrees of tying the record high of 117 degrees.
There were a total of 29 days in which El Paso experienced temperatures of 110 degrees or higher.
On Friday, the city of Phoenix reached a new record for the number of consecutive days with temperatures at or above 110 degrees. As it does not appear that the heat will let up over the course of the weekend, the city may break its previous record of 18 consecutive days with temperatures of 110 degrees or more. This is because it appears unlikely that the heat will abate over the course of the weekend.
There is an 86 percent chance that the temperature in St. George,
Utah, will either tie or surpass the record high temperature of 117 degrees, which was achieved in 1998. This forecast is based on data collected over the course of two days, Sunday and Monday.
The first 13 days of July saw Miami break the previous record for that time period with an average high temperature of 94.5 degrees, which was reached.
It’s possible that the Central Valley of California will see temperatures as high as 112 degrees throughout the course of the upcoming weekend.
Approximately five weeks after wildfire smoke from Canada clouded skies over New York and much of the Northeast, dense smoke from the flames is still affecting numerous Canadian provinces and expanding into the Northern Plains and Great Lakes areas of the United States. The smoke has also dimmed skies over New York City and much of the Northeast. The skies above New York City and most of the rest of the Northeast have become significantly darker as a result of this smoke.
Over the course of the following week,
it is anticipated that temperatures will reach 90 degrees or higher across close to 70 percent of the United States, and it is anticipated that more than 55 million individuals will encounter peak temperatures that reach or surpass 100 degrees.
The natural sinkhole in northern Utah that is also known as Peter Sinks was the spot in the United States where the temperature dropped to its lowest point on Saturday, 27 degrees. This was the case at Peter Sinks.
