Records fell on Thursday in the Southwest of the country as temperatures soared past 110 degrees Fahrenheit ( 43 degrees Celsius ) from east California to Arizona, where the country’s first heat wave of the year was anticipated to hold off for at least another time.
About half of Arizona and Nevada were in an extreme heat update, which the National Weather Service claimed would continue until Friday night, despite the fact that the official start of the summer is also two weeks away. The steam warning for Las Vegas was extended through Saturday.
” It’s thus hot”, said Eleanor Wallace, 9, who was visiting Phoenix from northern Utah Thursday on a trek celebrating her day with her mother, Megan Wallace.
The National Weather Service in Phoenix, where the new record high of 113 F ( 45 C ) on Thursday leap- frogged the old mark of 111 F ( 44 C ) set in 2016, called the conditions “dangerously hot”.
According to AP editor Ben Thomas, temperature records are sputtering across the Southwest United States.
There are no pending reports of severe injuries or deaths related to temperature.
However, 11 individuals reportedly fell ill from heat stress at a campaign rally held in Phoenix for Donald Trump, who was running for president in Phoenix. They were taken to the hospital, where they were treated and released, according to fire officials.
The Clark County Fire Department reported responding to at least 12 calls for heat exposure since midnight on Wednesday with a new record of 111 ( 43.8 C ) on Thursday, which also made it the earliest time of year the high reached at least 110 ( 43.3 C ). A person who needed medical care was the subject of nine of those enquiries.
Several other areas of Arizona, California and Nevada also broke records by a degree or two, including Death Valley National Park with a record high for the date of 122 ( 50 C ) topping the 121 ( 49.4 C ) dating to 1996 in the desert that sits 194 feet (59 meters ) below sea level near the California- Nevada line. The files that are from 1911.
Even in places further north at higher elevations, where the temperature has arrived days earlier than usual, where it is generally a hundred degrees cooler. That includes Reno, where the normal high of 81 F ( 27 C ) for this time of year soared to a record 98 F ( 37 C ) on Thursday. The files that are from 1888.
This weekend, the National Weather Service predicted a moderate heating regionwide, but only by a dozen levels. In central and southern Arizona, that will still means quintuple- decimal highs, even up to 110 F ( 43 C ).
On Thursday in Phoenix, the extremely popular wind did not prevent Oscar Tomasio of Cleveland, Ohio, from proposing to his partner, Megan McCracken, as they sweltered to the top of a road on Camelback Mountain with 3 liters of water each in truck.
” It was a tough hike”, Tomasio told The Associated Press. ” It was more popular, so we started further early”.
” The sights were wonderful. She was a little agitated with the heat, he said, so we did n’t quite reach the top. ” So, I proposed to her when the sun rose”.
In an effort to beat the heat and the trail’s pending closing, McCracken confirmed they had planned a morning climb and awoke about 5 a.m.
” Probably not early enough”, she said.
We arrived a few minutes after 6 and it seemed like we were prepared, but we made it through all of our waters, which was hotter than we’re used to, according to Megan Wallace, the family of the birthday child from Utah.
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This report was written by Associated Press artists Rio Yamat and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas, and Anita Snow and Ty O’Neil in Phoenix.
