The dangerously hot weather strained the power grid to failure throughout Los Angeles County on Friday, the peak of the record-setting heat wave. "Extreme heat has caused power outages in some neighborhoods.@LADWPcrews are working to restore power quickly and safely," Mayor Karen Bass posted on...
Amy Maetzold is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She started her journalism career in Wisconsin where she was a producer at NBC15 and Spectrum News 1. Before coming to KCAL, Amy covered news in Santa Barbara at KEYT, winning a group Emmy Award for team coverage on...
The ordeal reminds Angelenos of their vulnerability. At any given time Los Angeles is at risk of fire, flood, extreme heat, mudslides and earthquakes. A county of nearly 10m people persists in precarity. “Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, ofapocalypse” wrote Joan Didion in ...
Heat, Human mortality, Winter heat waves, Los Angeles, Air masses, DLNMAuthor(s): Kalkstein, AJ; Kalkstein, LS; Vanos, JK; Eisenman, DP; Grady Dixon, P | Abstract: Extreme heat is often associated with elevated levels of human mortality, particularly across the mid-latitudes. Los Angeles...
(Zoe Cranfill / Los Angeles Times) Other health problems “Heat strains every chronic illness we study,” said Dr. Aaron Bernstein, director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC. “So if you have heart disease or diabetes or even chronic obstructive pulmonary...
In response to the extreme heat, Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks extended cooling center hours at some locations. Some libraries also served as cooling centers during regular hours.
Extreme heat’s deadly toll Read all of our coverage about how California is neglecting the climate threat posed by extreme heat. Oct. 7, 2021 Colorado River in Crisis A series of stories, videos and podcasts about the river’s decline, from the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the riv...
Los Angeles is experiencing more heat waves, an event defined by 3 consecutive days above 32.2 C (90 F) in Los Angeles, and also more extreme heat days, defined as days above 32.2 C (90 F). These numbers have increased by 1.72 C (3.09 F) per century and 22.8 per century occurrences...
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Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN that another outage elsewhere could result in the service going dark for some of its users.