Editorial: Deadly heat shouldn’t be a curiosity. It’s a disaster and a tragedy
1 year, 5 months ago

Editorial: Deadly heat shouldn’t be a curiosity. It’s a disaster and a tragedy

LA Times  

An extreme heat danger sign at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, on July 17. Visitors are making perilous trips to California’s Death Valley as temperatures climb to within a few degrees of the highest on record. It’s understandable that the thrill-seekers among us would be drawn to places like Death Valley National Park, where temperatures in recent days have reached 129 degrees during the day, and remained as high as 120 degrees after midnight, to feel the furnace-like blast of hot air firsthand and experience how it tests the limits of human survival. As climate scientist Michael Mann put it earlier this summer, “ it’s a ‘new abnormal’ and it is now playing out in real time — the impacts of climate change are upon us in the form of unprecedented, dangerous extreme weather events.” It won’t begin to change until we stop burning fossil fuels.

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For these Death Valley residents, extreme heat is a way of life
5 months ago

For these Death Valley residents, extreme heat is a way of life

LA Times  

The temperature had just crept past 125 degrees, and Stephen Peterson was staring absently at a family cooling off in the Stovepipe Wells hotel swimming pool. “A lot of it is, people come for six months then quit to go back to society,” said Yeager, who’s been at Death Valley for two years now. “There’s no ‘Death Valley Water Company’ …

First wildfire death of 2024 season reported as California heat wave continues
5 months, 1 week ago

First wildfire death of 2024 season reported as California heat wave continues

LA Times  

The first wildfire death of the 2024 season was reported Friday as California sweltered through scorching temperatures this week. The blaze was first reported near Bluff Street and Mias Canyon Road, near the Banning Sportsman’s Club, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. But after firefighters stopped the blaze’s spread by mid-afternoon, officials lifted the evacuation warnings around 5 p.m. …

Tourists defy heatwave warnings by US to capture Death Valley's unique landscape
5 months, 1 week ago

Tourists defy heatwave warnings by US to capture Death Valley's unique landscape

Hindustan Times  

Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the US are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend. ““It’s not cited to be an official temperature sensor,” …

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend. “This is an incredibly popular …

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths

Hindustan Times  

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. were still drawn to Death Valley National Park on Monday, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth's hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist's death over the weekend. Tourists still flock to …

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. were still drawn to Death Valley National Park on Monday, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend. Kind of like walking …

‘Unprecedented’ heat wave in California brings death, fires, all-time highs
5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Unprecedented’ heat wave in California brings death, fires, all-time highs

LA Times  

Melissa Bolding and Bryan Bolding from Oklahoma City pose for a photo next to a thermometer at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center in Death Valley National Park on July 7, 2024. “It’s unprecedented heat — take this very seriously,” said Dan Berc, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Las Vegas. The San Joaquin Valley is expected to be under an …

Persistent heat wave in the US shatters new records, causes deaths in the West and grips the East
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Persistent heat wave in the US shatters new records, causes deaths in the West and grips the East

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and held the East in its hot and humid grip. Phoenix set a new daily record Sunday for the warmest low temperature: it …

California heat: A ‘potentially historic’ heat wave intensifies along the West Coast, as dangerous wildfires spread
5 months, 2 weeks ago

California heat: A ‘potentially historic’ heat wave intensifies along the West Coast, as dangerous wildfires spread

CNN  

CNN — An extremely dangerous, unusually long heat wave is intensifying and spreading up the West Coast – and there will be no relief for days. “This level of heat throughout parts of the Mojave Desert and Sacramento/San Joaquin valleys of California could pose a risk to anyone if proper heat safety is not followed,” the weather service said. Parts …

California’s heat wave breaks records, fuels wildfires
6 months, 2 weeks ago

California’s heat wave breaks records, fuels wildfires

LA Times  

The heat wave that continues to scorch parts of California’s interior pushed temperatures across the state into the triple digits Wednesday and Thursday, setting several daily records. Record-setting temperatures Palmdale set a record high for both June 5 and 6, hitting 105 degrees Wednesday, two degrees above its record from 1981, and 103 degrees on Thursday, one degree past its …

Punishing heat dome to worsen over California, West and send temperatures to dangerous highs
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Punishing heat dome to worsen over California, West and send temperatures to dangerous highs

CNN  

CNN — A brutal heat dome is ramping up and sending temperatures to dangerous levels in California and the West in what is the region’s first significant heat wave of the year. July-like high temperatures will top out at 20 to 25 degrees above normal in multiple Western states this week and could break several daily record high temperatures. Phoenix; …

California’s scorcher: ‘Heat dome’ brings broiling conditions. But a few areas will be spared
6 months, 2 weeks ago

California’s scorcher: ‘Heat dome’ brings broiling conditions. But a few areas will be spared

LA Times  

After months of below-average temperatures and weeks of unseasonably wet weather, California’s first heat wave of the year is marking an abrupt transition into the summer months, with record-breaking, triple-digit temperatures expected to continue the rest of this week. Across most of interior Northern California through the southern San Joaquin Valley, officials are warning of a major heat risk Wednesday …

Southern California has baked for much of July, but the heat could finally ease soon
1 year, 4 months ago

Southern California has baked for much of July, but the heat could finally ease soon

LA Times  

Much of Southern California has spent almost all of July under heat advisories, breaking multiple high-temperature records, but as the month enters its final days, some relief could be in store. “Today’s going to be the last of really high heat for the L.A. Basin,” Joe Sirard, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Oxnard, said Friday. “Finally we’re going to …

California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues
1 year, 5 months ago

California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said. Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit …

Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave
1 year, 5 months ago

Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave

Associated Press  

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons. Signs at hiking trails advise against venturing out after 10 a.m., though nighttime temperatures are still expected to be over 90 F. The hottest temperature recorded at Death Valley was 134 F in July 1913, according to the National Park Service. People run to …

Dangerous triple-digit temperatures broil Southern California’s inland areas this weekend
1 year, 5 months ago

Dangerous triple-digit temperatures broil Southern California’s inland areas this weekend

LA Times  

Sergio Lopez, working around his mobile home under blazing sun Tuesday, cools off by pouring cold water over on his head at Oasis Mobile Home Park in Thermal, Calif. Dangerously hot temperatures are broiling California this weekend as a “heat dome” continues to bake the American West, increasing the risk of heat-related health issues and wildfires. “It’s going to get …

California’s climate crisis is intensifying quickly and taking a heavy toll on residents, new data reveals
2 years, 1 month ago

California’s climate crisis is intensifying quickly and taking a heavy toll on residents, new data reveals

CNN  

CNN — California’s climate crisis is quickly intensifying, impacting every resident and “increasingly taking a toll on the health and well-being of its people and on its unique and diverse ecosystems,” new state data reveals. The evidence continues to mount of the impacts of climate change on the health, safety, and well-being of the state’s residents,” authors of the report …

Record temperatures, raging fires, a strained power grid: California heat wave in full effect
2 years, 3 months ago

Record temperatures, raging fires, a strained power grid: California heat wave in full effect

LA Times  

Firefighters were briefly pulled off the front lines of the Route fire near Castaic on Thursday afternoon due to triple-digit heat, leaving the battle to aircraft. Near the Route fire, temperatures soared to 111 degrees Thursday, said Tom Fisher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, citing data from a Southern California Edison gauge near Castaic Lake. “It’s …

Watch | Hottest place in the world flooded after 1-in-1000-year rain
2 years, 4 months ago

Watch | Hottest place in the world flooded after 1-in-1000-year rain

India Today  

Death Valley in California is known as the hottest place in the world, and the driest place in the United States, however, climate change is changing the scenery. The event has led to over a thousand people being stranded inside California's Death Valley National Park, forcing authorities to close it temporarily. #cawx #stormhour pic.twitter.com/3rDFUgY7ws — John Sirlin August 5, 2022 …

Editorial: Climate change is fueling extreme heat. California can do much more to save lives
3 years, 2 months ago

Editorial: Climate change is fueling extreme heat. California can do much more to save lives

LA Times  

Diane McClinden, 63, and her dog Frankie try to stay cool in their trailer home in Desert Hot Springs on July 26, when the temperature reached 97 degrees. California may be a leader in fighting climate change, but the state is unprepared for one of the deadliest consequences of global warming — extreme heat. Here’s one reason state leaders have …

Record temperatures lure ‘heat tourists’ to Death Valley National Park
4 years, 2 months ago

Record temperatures lure ‘heat tourists’ to Death Valley National Park

LA Times  

Once he saw that temperatures in Death Valley National Park had hit 130 degrees Fahrenheit, Dan Markham, 40, knew he had to go. This year will go down as the fourth-hottest summer in Death Valley history after the park recorded “some of the hottest days ever recorded on Earth,” according to the park. In fact, some are drawn by the …

California heat wave may rival deadly July 2006 event, forecasters say
4 years, 4 months ago

California heat wave may rival deadly July 2006 event, forecasters say

LA Times  

The extended outlook calls for temperatures to continue to be above normal throughout California and the Southwest. The heat wave that began Friday in California may rival the deadly seven-day heat event of July 2006, the National Weather Service said. High pressure over southwestern California on Tuesday will reach a strength that occurs only about once every 10 years, said …

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