Extreme heat in the West could break 200 records and produce temps up to 127 degrees
Extreme heat in the West could break 200 records and produce temps up to 127 degrees
About 200 million people are projected to experience temperatures over 90 degrees over the next seven days, and 40 million over 100 degrees.
June 15, 2021, 11:53 AM EDT
By Kathryn Prociv and Jeremy Lewan
Dozens of daily records were set Monday as highs soared into the 90s and hit triple digits across cities in the Western part of the country, stretching all the way north to the Canadian border.
Denver hit 101 and Montana's capital, Helena, reached a sizzling 104 degrees. Records in Salt Lake City and Billings, Montana, were broken by 5 degrees or more. Record highs are typically only broken by 1 or 2 degrees, so the fact many were obliterated by large margins speaks to the intensity of the heat that's baking that part of the country.
And there's not much relief in sight, as the extreme heat across the West will only intensify and become more widespread through the rest of the week.
About 200 million people are projected to experience temperatures over 90 degrees over the next seven days, and 40 million over 100 degrees.
More than 50 million Americans were under heat warnings and watches Tuesday as triple digits, coupled with bone-dry humidity, choke the West throughout the week. Highs could skyrocket up to 30 degrees above average in some spots, and nearly 200 daily record highs are possible by the end of the week.
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Or, as my brother calls it, "Golfing weather." (The golf courses give reduced fees to golf in extreme heat).
I went in to the office where I'm nicely chilled.
My husband is working from home today, and we always fight over the A/C.
He can take the heat, I can't.
Anyone who questions global warming today will get a knuckle sandwich from me.
a private office. And unlike you I was, technically, the only one working full time at home. I don't care to try to imagine both of us learning our limits. I tried hiding in what had been our bedroom sanctuary, and I did have that space alone, but a work corner there didn't work emotionally for me. I don't want to whine to someone who went through much more, but I was really, really surprised how MUCH it didn't work for me. You just don't know until it's your life.
I'm retired now, but the current sitting rooms planned to solve that problem started as my office/sitting rooms, outfitted to multifunction as needed. (He has his own private space less centrally located.) The future I imagine keeps something like that, a serene bedroom, a very functional kitchen, and a nice but not huge place to garden and relax/feed too many visitors for inside. The rest up for discussion. Or discard. 
I have to confess, because I've never looked into it, why you get assigned one of them or the other.
My whole adult life, I've had SRP (or lived in apartments with utilities included).
Yes, it would sometimes hit the upper teens even back in the 50s and 60s, but it was unusual.
Now, it happens multiple times every summer.
It was 116 in AUGUST last year. That is not typical.
Also, it would still drop to the 50s-60s once the sun went down. Very few people ran their swamp coolers overnight.
Now, if it gets down to the 80s we're lucky.
So.....*POW*
cooler!
I live here because I have a job that puts food on my family. Plus, my 98 year old grandmother is here and needs my support. She was born in Mesa in 1923, and there's no question of moving her now.
Not that it's any of your business.....
I grew up in the Greenlake area of Seattle.
My mom's family is from the Lake Stevens area.
I miss my home country....
Could never afford to live there, though.
It's why we moved in the first place.
We were homeless in Seattle.
