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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LOL
It gets hot in mid-summer. Who knew??? Are we all going to die this afternoon?
The world would be a better place if Congress had no air conditioning.
Exactly......I recall summers growing up in PA. where we couldn’t go barefoot because the grass was so brittle from drying up.
***The heat index for DC is forecast at 111F for Saturday, within two degrees of the index expected for Death Valley. ***
DC has high humidity so the actual temp can be lower, but feels hotter.
Death Valley has low humidity so the temp is probably correct.
Here are the past highs for DC, July 18-22. No AC then. Skim down to July.
https://www.weather.gov/lwx/dcanme#jul
18 89 71 0.13 103 /1887 72 /1939+ 55 /1892 80 /2013+ 2.47 1919
19 89 71 0.11 102 /1930 76 /1929+ 56 /1911+ 81 /2013 1.51 1922
20 89 71 0.12 106*/1930 72 /1875 53 /1890 82 /2015 1.45 1969
21 89 71 0.11 104 /1926 71 /2012 56 /1909+ 82 /1987 4.00 2018
22 89 71 0.11 103 /1926 70 /1905 53 /1890 83 /2011 4.35 1969
I’ve lived here in the East and you’re mistaken.....we are well accustomed to heat and cold and all that comes with seasonal changes and adapt accordingly....with or without air conditioning.
the all-time hottest temperature ever measured on Earth came on July 10, 1913, when Death Valley hit a sizzling 134 degrees F.
It must have been caused by the model T.
LOL
We vacation in Tucson almost every spring school break (March-April).
My son went to the U of A. He and I drove out there from NH in August to start freshman year in 1998.
We checked into a hotel at night. By mid-morning it was 107. When I went outdoors, I thought I would die.
I went to college in Upstate NY, and in January of my freshman year it was -40F+ 3 days in a row. The locals said, "yes, but it's a dry cold".
Dry hot or dry cold, +107F is farking HOT, and -45F is farking COLD.
Summer in Arizona is like living in a blast furnace.
To me, Arizona wins out because of the low humidity.
I was stationed in Kansas City, MO and it reached a negative 54 degree windchill one time. When I was stationed in Cheyenne, WY and we had 13" of snow and a blizzard on Mother's Day in May. We had to turn the furnace on in July.
I prefer the heat over the cold so I've never lived "up north" since I've had a choice of where to reside.
“And air conditioning in your house?? Yeh right....you fanned yourself with a piece of cardboard.”
Yep — I know what you mean!! All we had was one box fan for the whole house and fanned ourselves with whatever we had that was flat and sturdy! My church had hand-held fans with handles that everyone used on Sunday mornings. They all had Bible scenes and were furnished by the funeral home next door! I slept in a small upstairs bedroom with one small window and no air flow. Looking back, I wonder how I ever got any sleep, but it was all we knew at the time. Makes me feel like a weenie now that I can’t live without AC.
Because nothing like this has ever happened before...
Obviously this is happening because POTUS Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords and didn’t impose any Carbon Taxes. (cough, cough)
Actually enjoyable, considering I don’t do anything outside. I’m opposed to sweating :)
My first week in Phoenix was when my family moved there after my dad retired from the Air Force. It was July. Never got below 100 degrees at night all week.
But I'll still take the heat over the cold any day of the week.
Love it love it love it love it love it love it love it!
Every day down here in Cape May County New Jersey people say
“ oh my gosh it’s so hot today”. Every freaking day !
I just laugh at them
115* in Yuma in November isn’t unusual, so I fail to see the significance.
The heat index was created so that folks in large cities could have a corollary to the Wind Chill factor in winter, which is a measureable and real phenomenon..
I concur, Heat Index is nearly meaningless.
I learned that in Florida everyone stays inside in the summer where in the colder climates they’re inside in the winter......it’s a trade off.
Au contraire mon frère.
I live in Florida but there's no way I can sit my ass down inside the house all summer drinking mint juleps because it's too hot outside.
I have 30 head of Angus beef cattle to raise on our 30 acres with the accompanying chores, barn and shed maintenance, mowing, fence repair, equipment maintenance and on and on and on a daily basis and none of it can be done inside with the A/C on.
Maybe you're talking about the queer freaks down in Miami or the rich guys who own the Mar-A-Lagos of the world.
But us regular guys, we have to work and many of us, outside, in the summer Florida heat and humidity.
Just another day at the "office".
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