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July was California’s hottest month in history

Sat 10 Aug 2024 12.00 BST



California experienced its hottest month on record in July as grueling heat baked the American west for weeks on end.

The state’s average temperature for the month was 81.7F (27.6C), according to the National Centers for Environmental Information, but some areas endured days of temperatures greater than 100F (about 38C). Several cities broke temperature records during a heatwave in early July – Palm Springs hit 124F on 5 July, while Redding in the state’s far north saw a high of 119F on 6 July.

Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth, recorded its hottest month ever in July, according to the National Park Service (NPS). In Nevada, Las Vegas reached 120F on 7 July, its hottest day in history, and set a record for number of days over 115F.

The impacts of extreme heat are being felt across the US and the world as the climate crisis drives increasingly severe and dangerous weather conditions. Last month about one-third of the US population was under warnings for record heat. The Earth saw its hottest day in recorded history on 22 July, breaking a record set just one day earlier.

Extreme heat poses major health risks and is the mostly deadly type of weather-related disaster. It is particularly dangerous for unhoused people and seniors as well as those who don’t have access to cooling spaces.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... month-july

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Heat Caused Over 47,000 deaths in Europe in 2023, the Second Highest Burden of the Last Decade
August 12, 2024

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(Eurekalert) More than 47,000 people died in Europe as a result of high temperatures in 2023, the warmest year on record globally and the second warmest in Europe. This is the estimate of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, and published in Nature Medicine. The researchers report that the vulnerability to heat of European societies has progressively decreased over the present century, and estimate that without these societal adaptation processes, the heat related mortality burden over the past year would have been 80% higher.

The study replicates the methodology used last year in another paper published in Nature Medicine, which estimated that heat caused more than 60,000 deaths during the summer of 2022, which represented the highest heat related mortality burden of the last decade. In a nutshell, researchers used temperature and mortality records from 823 regions in 35 European countries for the period 2015-2019 to fit epidemiological models to estimate heat related mortality in each European region over the entire year 2023

Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1054015

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Bangladesh floods kill dozens and displace millions

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/v ... -millions/

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Phoenix set to break record for 110-degree days as extreme heat plagues West Coast

Source: ABC News

Extreme late-season heat is plaguing the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle with heat alerts issued for more than 65 million Americans across six states.

Phoenix has surpassed 110 degrees 55 times this summer, tying the record set just last year. Phoenix is expected to break that all-time record Thursday as temperatures are forecast to reach near 114 degrees.

Over the last 30 years, Phoenix has seen an average of 21 days a year over 110 degrees.

Phoenix reached 111 degrees on Wednesday, extending its record for the most consecutive days at 100 degrees or higher to an even 100. The previous record was 76 days at 100 or above.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/phoenix-set-b ... =113417174

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Those Central and Eastern European floods are unprecedented
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jwp3ppp6xo

A firefighter has died during a flood rescue in Austria and one person has drowned in Poland, as torrential rain caused by Storm Boris continues to wreak havoc across Central and Eastern Europe.
In Romania five people have died, while several remain unaccounted for in the Czech Republic.
The Austrian province surrounding Vienna has been declared a disaster area, with its leaders speaking of "an unprecedented extreme situation".
Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk confirmed one death on Sunday as he urged stricken residents to cooperate with rescuers.

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More on that by the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20pkwd4dg2o

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More on that by the Globe and Mail:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/a ... -in-nepal/

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