Historic, unforgiving Western heat wave is peaking and crushing records
Historic, unforgiving Western heat wave is peaking and crushing records
Matthew Cappucci, Jason Samenow – 11h ago
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A historically severe September heat wave is baking the West, breaking hundreds of records, posing a danger to public health and pushing California’s power grid to the limit. Some records have been shattered by wide margins as the scorching air mass exacerbates the fire danger in the drought-stricken region.
Historic, unforgiving Western heat wave is peaking and crushing records© Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
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As San Jose and Sacramento soared to all-time records of 109 and 115 degrees Tuesday afternoon, California’s Independent System Operator (ISO) said the state’s electric grid is under heavy strain and warned consumers “to be prepared for possible outages” Tuesday evening.
“As the state faces the hottest day in this prolonged, record-breaking heat wave, grid conditions are expected to worsen,” the grid operator wrote in a news release. “If needed, ISO could order utilities to begin rotating power outages to maintain stability of the electric grid.”
The agency, which declared an energy emergency alert, is predicting an all-time historic high demand of 52,258 megawatts Tuesday afternoon, surpassing its previous record of 50,270 megawatts on July 24, 2004.
The ISO urged residents to “precool” their homes to 72 degrees Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, and then turning the thermostat to 78 degrees during peak demand hours between 5 and 9 p.m. It has called for such reductions on seven straight days.
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