In Las Vegas — which just experienced itshottest first week of Junesince temperature records began in 1937 — the heat was also expected to push temperatures well into the triple digits during the city's heat warning period, from Tuesday morning until Wednesday night, me...
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas set another record peakload on July 11, forecast yet higher records for July 12-13, and notified market participants of a triple-digit high temperature forecast across Central Texas through July 17, which support triple-digit power prices and strengthen nat...
The drought of 1980 tied or met 29 daily high temperature records and hit many other records. It also caused significant damage to agriculture, and led to at least 1,200 deaths. Another remarkable thing about the 1980 drought was the media coverage, which became obsessive. As the U.S. ...
If you recall back in 2011, East Texas was under a massive heat wave. Somewhere in the neighborhood of two consecutive months, temperatures were above 100 degrees. In 2016, as an experiment, I placed cookies in my car, with a thermometer, to demonstrate the heat build up throughout the d...
Last year, ERCOT says it set 11 new peak demand records, surpassing 80 GWs of energy for the first time. The agency says the current record of 80,148 MWs was set on July 20, 2022. Tags Heat Wave Southeast Southwest
The drought of 1980 tied or met 29 daily high temperature records and hit many other records. It also caused significant damage to agriculture, and led to at least 1,200 deaths. Another remarkable thing about the 1980 drought was the media coverage, which became obsessive. As the U.S. ...
The temperature was approaching 90 degrees and the heat index was 104 in Brownsville on the U.S./Mexico border by midmorning Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Red Flag fire warnings were also in place in West Texas, all of New Mexico and parts of Oklahoma, Arizona and ...
Also known as the "1936 North American Heat Wave," it exacerbated the levels of human suffering during the ongoing Great Depression. Little Rock in Arkansas had to endure its hottest summer in 2010 between June and August when the temperature went above 90 degrees for two months. California ...
As I told all in my last post we were headed for Rockport for a week stay and had that wonderful spot at the Blue Lagoon. Well, yesterday Clay hooked up The Duck and then washed it and the Navigator. Now Clay is 80 years old and the temperature was well into the 90’s. Need I ...
During the statewide 1934 heat wave, residents of Gallipolis, a village in Ohio, bore the brunt of the highest temperature ever recorded in the state. Residents left their furnace-like houses in the hopes of finding a shady spot to cool off, while many slept on their rooftops, porches, or...