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OPINION: Yes on Proposition 4 Now or Pay More Later

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Laura Engeman and Christopher Anthony

Changing climate conditions are affecting our health, lives and economy. Just consider what San Diegans endured over the last year.

In recent weeks, a prolonged heat wave kept temperatures in the three-digit range, toxic smoke migrating from wildfires up north prompted air quality alerts, and area hillsides thick with dry brush caught fire. In January, nearly 1,200 people were displaced from flooding after 150 billion gallons of rain fell in six hours.

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Fifth Day of Heat Wave Sends Temperatures Soaring, Knocks Out Power to Thousands

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Gary Robbins, Rob Nikolewski, Blake Nelson

Fans turned off. Air conditioning vanished. Freezer ice began to thaw. The sun, however, just kept on shining.

Thousands of residents lost power across the San Diego region on Sunday as a punishing heat wave entered its fifth day. At one point Sunday afternoon, San Diego Gas & Electric said about 13,000 customers were without electricity. By 8 p.m., the utility reported more than 11,000 still lacked power, affecting residents from Lemon Grove to City Heights to Old Town, as well as some in Escondido and Vista. Some problems were attributed to weather affecting equipment, while others were being investigated, according to the company’s outage map.

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Heat Wave, Thunderstorms to Raise the Risk of Wildfires in California

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Summer Lin

Another heat wave and more monsoonal thunderstorms are expected to increase wildfire danger in California over the weekend and into next week.

A high-pressure system is expected to expand over the western United States on Wednesday and get stronger through Friday, according to the National Weather Service. California will be spared the worst of the heat, the weather service predicted, as the system concentrates over the Rocky Mountains.

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‘Long-Duration’ Heat Wave Again Cooking California, Raising Health and Wildfire Concerns

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Grace Toohey

Another bout of prolonged heat has kicked off across California and much of the West, expected to again bring several days of triple-digit temperatures to most inland areas.

July’s second major heat wave isn’t forecast to be as extreme as the last event, which set several all-time records for high temperatures. Nevertheless, the National Weather Service predicted that it will be a “long-duration heat wave,” which creates uniquely dangerous conditions — especially when temperatures barely drop at night.

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California’s Heatwave Evaporates Billions of Gallons of Water from Reservoirs

/in , /by /Desert Sunby Damon Arthur and James Ward

California’s current record-breaking heat wave in July has caused hundreds of millions of gallons of water in Lake Shasta and other major reservoirs in Northern California to disappear into thin air.

During the first nine days of July, 3,392 cubic feet per second of water — or about 2.2 billion gallons — turned into vapor and floated away into the atmosphere off the man-made Lake Shasta. During just one day — July 3 — 288.8 million gallons of water alone evaporated.

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‘Exceptionally Dangerous’ Heat Wave Could Broil California for Several Days

/in , /by /Fox Weatherby Scott Sistek

An intense and potentially record-setting ridge of high pressure is building across California and the West, threatening days and perhaps more than a week of a dangerous, life-threatening heat wave.

The worst of the heat will be centered in California’s Central Valley, where as many as 10 days or more of 110-degree heat looms. But just about all of California, stretching into western Oregon and western Nevada, will swelter for an extended period.

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Extended California Heat Wave Brings Extreme Health, Fire Risk; Power Shutoffs Likely

/in , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Grace Toohey

Authorities are warning of extreme health and wildfire risks across California this week, as the longest heat wave of the year is set to kick off Tuesday, bringing triple-digit temperatures, with little overnight cooling, to the vast majority of the state.

“This is really just a long-duration heat event that will provide little to no overnight [temperature] relief,” said Antoinette Serrato, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Hanford, Calif. The heat wave is expected to bring dangerous temperatures through the Fourth of July holiday and into early next week in many areas, particularly across Northern California, the Central Valley and southwestern deserts, she said.

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Hello Summer: ‘Long Duration’ Heat Wave to Sweep the Region

/in , /by /Fox 5/KUSIby Amber Coakley

It’s about to heat up in San Diego County, with hot temperatures expected to linger for a bit.

The National Weather Service said a slight cooldown is anticipated for Monday, though short-lived as a warming trend sets in for the week of the Fourth of July holiday. The heat will be most felt away from the coast as high pressure moves into the region.

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Long-Term Drought and Near-Term Heat Wave Take Toll on Arizona’s Desert Ecology

/in , , /by /NBC Newsby Evan Bush

Frank Reichenbacher worries it will soon be over for his Tumamoc globeberry — a rare Sonoran desert vine that features a fruit that looks like a tiny watermelon and tastes like dirt.

For 41 years, Reichenbacher, an associate researcher at the University of Arizona’s Tumamoc Desert Lab, has followed the same three patches of the rare plants in southern Arizona — including one on Tucson’s Tumamoc Hill.

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Climate Change Made July Hotter for Almost Every Human on Earth

/in , , /by /AP Newsby Seth Borenstein

Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily, according to a flash study.

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