(Bloomberg) – Almost half of the US will behave under hot, sticky conditions for most of the week, as temperatures and humidity rise from Chicago to New York and New Orleans, increasing the demand and increasing health risks.
Thermal advice and extreme heat warning stretch from Nebraska to Long Island and New Hampshire to northeast Texas. It is assumed that Monday’s high central park reaches 96F (36C), but with humidity will feel closer to 100f or more. Chicago is likely to reach 91F and will feel closer to 102F, said the National Meteorological Service.
The front side of the weather, which drops from the north, will start relief within a week to most areas except the deep south, which will persist with hot, sticky conditions for the coming days.
“We have to walk in the next few days, especially northeast,” said David Roth, a forecast of seniors at the US prediction center.
High temperatures have increased alarms for public services and grid operators from central US to the Atlantic when people turn to air conditioning. The heat has also slowed down the railway operation, as the trains must move carefully through the heated tracks.
PJM Interconnection LLC, a grid operator that moves electricity in 13 countries and the Columbia district, and the independent MidContinent operator asked the power plants to be available. The Council for Electrical Reliability in Texas expects the demand to proceed to record levels, but says it will have enough offers to maintain energy flow.
In addition to emphasizing infrastructure, people’s health is at risk. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency from 1979 to 2022, more than 14,000 Americans died of causes related to heat related to heat.
At the edge of the heat, storms are expected to develop across large plains and the Midwest and can grow in Dereecho, a long range of destructive winds that can cause serious damage when traveling over long distances.
So far, only a few records have been set, including the historic maximum 100f in Tampa on Sunday, said the meteorological service. It usually weighs from the Gulf, maintaining temperatures in Florida, which culminates at the age of 90, but it did not happen on Sunday, Roth said.
There will also be a large number of weather, especially in New England, where temperatures were in Boston on Monday and it is expected that it will reach almost 90 ° F later on Tuesday.
New York will continue to develop on late Wednesday, the meteorological service said in its council. Roth said that advice may drop in other places with the setting sun, even if they could return the next day until the queue finally penetrates. This is because the minimum overnight in these areas does not get high enough to maintain the bulletin.
-S using Naureen S. Malik.
(Updating the grid alerts in the sixth paragraph.)
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