New York: Most of the West faces further recipulation temperatures over the next few days with more than 31 million people in the area under excessive heat warnings or hot advisors.
This is the third hot wave to sweep the area this summer.
In the Death Valley in the desert Mojave California southeast, the temperature jumped to 130 ° F (54 ° C) on Friday and Saturday and is estimated to reach the same peak on Sunday.
If confirmed as accurate, the reading of 130 degrees will be the hottest high recording there since July 1913, when the Desert Furnace Creek reaches 134 ° F (57 ° C), is considered the highest temperature on earth.
The extreme temperature that burns northwest Pacific at the end of June caused almost 200 deaths in Oregon and Washington, when people struggled to remain calm in poor air-conditioned houses, on the road, and in the fields and warehouses.
The same “hot dome” effect that envelops northwest – where hot and dry heat traps and accelerate temperature rise have dropped in California and southwest this weekend.
Sarah Rogowski, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, the highest said daytime between 100 ° F (37.7 ° C) and 120 ° F (48.8 ° C) regarding the California section.
Most dangerous, temperatures will remain high until night, drift 15 to 25 degrees above average.
The temperature that destroyed recording in the Northwest Pacific last week was impossible without climate change, according to the researchers.
Because climate change has increased the initial temperature of almost 2 ° F on average since 1900, heat waves tend to be hotter and more deadly than those in the past centuries, scientists said.
Excessionheat warning blankets are mostly California, along with parts of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Oregon and Idaho.
Las Vegas on Saturday tied the highest record of all time 117 ° F (47 ° C), said national weather service.
The city has seen high recording temperatures four times, last in June 2017.
31 million under the heat warning when US West Swellters
