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California's capital, Sacramento, was under an excessive heat warning expected to last until Sunday night, with temperatures forecasted to reach between 105 degrees and 115 degrees (40.5 and 46.1 ...
State officials are asking Californians to voluntarily limit electricity use Wednesday from 4 to 9 p.m. as the year's worst heat wave begins. Temperatures in the 100s are expected across large ...
As a major heat wave sets in over Northern California, forecast to last into next week, public agencies are warning of danger from extreme heat risk and reminding residents to practice heat safety.
State officials said it was the worst heat wave to hit Northern and Southern California simultaneously in 57 years. [25] Front-page newspaper coverage described some individual deaths. [26] By July 29, the mounting death toll left the coroner's office in Fresno overwhelmed and double-stacking bodies. [27]
The 2021 Western North America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. [5] The heat wave affected Northern California, Idaho, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia, and in its latter phase, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, all in ...
We have broken several records for high and low temperatures in the valley today. Merced: 111°, old record 108° (1931) Fresno: 112°, old record 111° (1905), 81°, old record 78° (2007)
The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s and caused more than 5,000 deaths. Many state and city record high temperatures set during the 1936 heat wave stood until the 2012 North American heat wave.
State officials are asking Californians to voluntarily limit electricity use Wednesday from 4 to 9 p.m. as the year's worst heat wave begins. Temperatures in the 100s are expected across large ...