Ba new one Heat wave The weekend brought extremely high temperatures to the western states of the United States. The National Weather Service issued a warning to more than 30 million people that high temperatures pose a major threat to their health.
In almost all of California and most areas of Nevada, the highest warning level is used. Not only the elderly or the sick are considered at risk, but everyone is also considered to be at risk. “Try to stay calm!” the agency wrote on Twitter, which literally means; she urged people to drink enough water and stay in the cold room or in the shade. In some places, it is said that the high temperature will continue until Monday.
Around 47 degrees in Las Vegas
According to preliminary information from the National Weather Service, the temperature in Las Vegas reached 47 degrees Celsius on Saturday. In the past few decades, thermometers have rarely climbed so high there. In Death Valley, California, notorious for its incredibly high temperatures, temperatures measured as high as 54 degrees. The highest temperature on record was 56.7 degrees. Weekends in Utah and Arizona have also become unusually hot.
At the beginning of the month alone, heat waves hit the northwestern United States and western Canada, with temperatures approaching 50 degrees. According to the authorities, the high temperature caused many deaths. In Lytton, a Canadian community about 260 kilometers northeast of Vancouver, the temperature measured was 49.6 degrees—the previous Canadian record was 45 degrees. A few days later, the village was almost completely destroyed in a prison.
Heat wave in the southwestern United States
According to the “Washington Post” report, this weekend, emergency rooms in the western United States reported an increase in the number of heat-related illnesses and deaths. On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom called on residents of the most populous state in the United States to save water and electricity due to rising temperatures and forest fires.
According to data from the US climate agency NOAA, last month was the hottest June in the country since records were recorded 127 years ago, with an average temperature of 22.6 degrees Celsius. Eight states—including California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah—have been hit by a heat wave again this weekend—also experienced the hottest June.
