Posted on 07/20/2019 1:04:16 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Deadly heatwave to leave DC as hot as DEATH VALLEY this weekend as 200M brace for temperatures in excess of 100F sparking NYC to declare an emergency and roads to buckle
A brutal heatwave is unfurling across two-thirds of the nation, blighting the east with temperatures that will make Washington DC feel as hot as Death Valley, and roast much of the country with 100-degree heat.
The crushing mass of hot air is likely to blanket the region, home to a third of the U.S. population, through Sunday with little overnight relief, said meteorologist David Roth of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
'There are 124 million people under a heat advisory or excessive heat warning - that's a third of the population,' Roth said. As of Friday, the heat wave sprawled from Kansas to the Atlantic Coast, and from South Carolina north to Maine. It was expected to intensify on Saturday and Sunday.
The heat index for DC is forecast at 111F for Saturday, within two degrees of the index expected for Death Valley.
n Sioux Falls, South Dakota, soaring temperatures of 93F with a heat index of 107F were reported when portions of Insterstate 229 buckled and cracked.
On Friday night, a massive power outage was reported in the Detroit metro area, affecting some 80,000 customers of DTE Energy.
Fearing potential fatalities, New York City declared a state of local emergency and canceled a number of major outdoor events.
'Hot weather is dangerous and can kill. People with chronic physical and mental health conditions should use air conditioning if they have it, and get to a cool, air conditioned place if they don't,' said New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot.
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or Texas.
I understand it was so hot yesterday that members of Congress that went outside assumed that they had just died.
I have seen nothing this summer nor heard no weather prediction that is out of the norm over my 60 years. It’s SUMMR, morons...
Well we HAVE passed 100 here in West Texas. Still, it’s July and nothing unusual. It’s projected to hit 100 here again today.
The people most vulnerable in the heat are the elderly. A lot of them don’t feel the heat the way younger people do. Also, a lot of them won’t run their AC even if they have it because they can’t (or don’t want to) run up their electric bills. This is when keeping an eye on elderly friends, neighbors, and family is even more important than usual.
About 8 years ago, I think it was, I worked in the DFW area for the summer. I distinctly remember a month where the temperature was over 100 EVERY day for a month, and 113 wasn’t uncommon. Road construction crews knocked off work about lunchtime and then went back about 7 or 8 PM and worked through the night. TXDOT had one lady whose job that summer was to drive around to construction sites and make sure that the crews had plenty of water, and fruit such as oranges, to maintain hydration, and to make sure that they were drinking the water and eating the fruit.
the entire world media reported former New York Giants player Mitch Petrus died of heat stroke, because the Pulaski County Coroner Gerone Hobbs said so, and said it was written on the death certificate! so what?
19 Jul: Accuweather: Ex-NFL player, 32, dies of heat stroke, officials say
By Mark Puleo
The high temperature of 92 F was in line with historical averages for July in Little Rock...
The normal high in mid-July is 93 degrees for the Little Rock area...
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/ex-nfl-player-32-dies-of-heat-stroke-officials-say/70008860
What a pantload of hyperbole. The author intentionally conflates “heat index” (which inanimate objects CANNOT experience or feel) with the true temperature. Temps are in the high 90s and low 100s; we are led to believe that has never happened in all of recorded history. Whoever wrote this tripe seems is intentionality suggesting that summer temps have never been that high before. The only thing unsaid is the only “fix” for summer is hundreds of trillions of new taxes, the ushering in of totalitarianism, and confiscation of all weapons.
In 14 or 15 weeks, all the author has to do is change “heat index” to “wind chill index,” “hot” to “cold,” and “heat wave” to “blizzard” and Et Voila! Your winter scaremongering article is all written for you.
I’m worried that they haven’t yet begun naming heat waves like blizzards. Let’s call this one “Heat Wave ‘Hysteria’.”
Folks that live in normally hot climates can deal with this kind of heat. Folks that don’t .... it take take a real toll on them. There are plenty of homes/apartments in that area of the U.S. that don’t have air conditioning. They usually don’t need it.
I’ve been in Chicago when it was in the mid 90s. It was miserable. I’m from Texas and I’ll take 100 here over 95 there any day of the week. I’ve also lived in your neck of the woods. Yeah, it was hot, but it was not all that oppressive.
We can handle it because we’re used to it. They aren’t.
“know what I mean?”
Is that synonymous with “nome sayn”?
Maybe that song is the solution for the homeless in Palm Beach. If I was living in a cardboard box with human feces all around, rats eating it, and needles everywhere, that song would get on my nerves. Much preferable is a 64’ Ocean Alexander.
You precisely nailed it. Except you can remove “I think.” Their stratagem is as clear as it is phony.
Ain’t that the truth!
I checked my calendar, too.
Yup. It’s July.
Few chores to finish this morning, then duck in the house (A/C running perfectly). Something cold to drink (Yuengling), then on to the riding mower. Thank goodness the riding mower has a cup holder (another Yuengling).
Burgers / Brats on the grille this evening, and wife is making her world famous macaroni salad.
Summer... I love it!
Central and eastern North Carolina have been very hot for over a week already but no panicky politically motivated articles seemed necessary. Mid to upper 90’s with high humidity in the central part of the state, actual hundred degree temps with high humidity to the east and south. Even a Trump rally with people waiting outside for hours. No fatalities, no states of emergency declared.
This is just more self-absorbed northeastern provincialism, like a hurricane that *might* make it up to Long Island with weather doofuses standing out on Montauk in a light breeze making dire statements about what New Yorkers should do, while houses are falling into the Atlantic on Hatteras.
The nightly news and the national print media are just so small town, it’s funny. Happens in the northeast, sound the alarms. Elsewhere? Yawn.
I read an article in the WSJ years ago that talked about the development of Houston, TX.
It said that it was so hot, humid and insufferable in Houston, that only the invention of air conditioned refrigeration allowed it to grow into a large, major, metropolitan city. Most people just wouldn't live or work there because it was so miserable.
I live in Florida on a cattle farm in retirement, but grew up in the Phoenix metro area as a kid.
Arizona is my favorite hot climate state to live in because the humidity is so low. It gets extremely hot there but it is bearable because it is a "dry heat". Your perspiration evaporates and your body cools down some.
Here is Florida, it's very hot but it's also very humid. Your sweat doesn't evaporate so your body gets hotter and hotter.
I wished I had stayed in Arizona but the wife's family is here and....well....you know the rest.
Stay cool.
Yes, everyone can ‘feel’ the extra 0.1F degree above normal. It’s obvious, don’tcha know?
Oh my we’re doomed. 8>)
You had cardboard?? We used to dream of having cardboard...
As hot as Death Valley?
I don’t think so: Sat 114, Sun 118, Mon 120
Today’s high in Torrance CA will be 72. Summer hasn’t started yet. But it will. We will be on fire in September and October when everyone else is having chilly Friday night high school football. That’s just life.
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