One-third of Americans under heat alerts as blistering weather spreads from Southwest to California

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By EUGENE GARCIA and JANIE HAR
Published 11:09 PM CDT, July 12, 2023

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — More than a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings Thursday as a blistering heat wave that’s been baking the nation spread further into California, forcing residents to seek out air conditioning or find other ways to stay cool in triple-digit temperatures.

The sweltering conditions were expected to build Friday and through the weekend in Central and Southern California, where many residents should prepare for the hottest weather of the year, the National Weather Service warned. Highs in inland desert areas could top 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 degrees Celsius) during the day, and remain in the 80s (above 26.6 C) overnight, offering little relief.

In the desert city of Palm Springs, many homeless people were left to contend with the heat on their own, with just 20 indoor beds at the lone overnight shelter.

John Summers, a homeless resident, climbed through a dry riverbed Thursday to seek shade at an encampment.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/california-southwest-heat-wave-6403f01428a04e23a251c5394f001505

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[bronxiteforever]

1. K&R. As a NASA scientist said the other day

climate change is implicated at least to some extent in all of these disasters. It makes the hot days hotter. It makes rainstorms more intense. It dries out landscapes and primes them for ignition. “We don’t need to do a specific attribution study anymore” to make such assertions, Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told me. “We’ve been doing this for 20 years now … This is so far from rocket science.”

… Disasters are no longer framed as harbingers; they’re simply understood to be the way things are. “These are not canaries in the coal mine,” Schmidt said. “The canaries died a long time ago.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/heat-climate-crises-natural-disasters/674700/

[pansypoo53219]

2. meanwhile in milwaukee, by thermometer reads 73f. haha. who cares about snow.

[llashram]

3. a high of

123 degrees is expected in Death Valley today and steady over 100 degrees elsewhere. Hotter than Vietnam as I remember. The heat was 80'-90's with heat indexes sometimes climbing over a hundred.

[efhmc]

4. This native Texan has always scoffed at other who complained about the heat but feeling it now.

I know it was not the same here previously.

[appalachiablue]

5. K/R

[DFW]

6. In 1985, I brought my newly hired Swiss colleague to Dallas to visit our HQ

He thought he knew about hot from vacations in Tunisia, Italy and Spain. But when we got off the plane, just in the short jetway between the plane and the terminal, he got a blast of heat he never forgot. "Le chaleur, le chaleur (the heat, the heat)! " he was exclaiming. He hasn't been back in nearly 40 years.

He lives in Geneva, not far from the lake, so he doesn't get that kind of temperature at home, although they have come close in recent years. He is now 76, and has no interest whatsoever in retiring. Like me, he says, "and do what?"

[BlueWavePsych]

7. Yup, Climate Change is just a hoax ...

[C Moon]

8. We've been well below average temp wise in So Cal until this came along.

We spent July 4th in Santa Barbara, and it was cloudy and in the 60's most of the time.
Usually it's very warm.

What gets me is how the weather people and newscasters pep up and get all excited about the upcoming hot weather. Then after one day of it the start asking when it's going to cool down.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

9. Central CA too.

Had to bundle for the (war zone-ish) 4th.
High is forecast to be 75 today. It's 68 right now and sunny.
I think they mean more the inland areas that are hell in the summer.

[C Moon]

10. I'm near the coast, too. But it's 83 here. Inland...I wouldn't want to be there: triple digits.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

11. Yep.

I was born in the San Joaquin Valley. Moved 30 years ago, and I'm not ever moving back. The Central Coast will be my departure point.