by Knickstrasse. Broken bridges. Delayed trains. Stringent power grids that led to dangerous failures. Cases of heat diseases and canceled sporting events. These were just a few of the effects of the oppressive heat wave this week, which had brought the hottest day in over a decade on Tuesday.
Since earlier disasters have exposed the vulnerabilities of the United States for other types of extreme weather, this week reveals tribes in the country’s infrastructure and underline the risks of public health if they are confronted with such a record heat.
The heat wave comes when the likelihood of extreme heat events worldwide grows steeply worldwide when the world is warming, together with its severity and duration. As average average temperatures are increasing, heat waves are the type of extreme weather event that scientists can reliably combine with climate change through fossil fuel pollution.
And this week is not over: Almost 100 daily temperature records are threatened on Wednesday, and the warming indices rose into the three -digit excavations along large parts of the east coast in the afternoon. Around 125 million people are still under extreme heat warnings and consultations on Wednesday.
When this heat wave began to build over the weekend, streets strapped in South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa as asphalt in the hot sun. On Monday, passengers from an Amtrak had to be saved in a tunnel from Baltimore without air conditioning. Due to the tendency that the heat to warp rail rails and the potential for electrical failures in the warmth of the heat to warp rail tracks, widespread speed restrictions have been set up. Due to the weather, numerous trains were canceled immediately. Other streets in the east coast, as the heat existed, including the Interstatte in New Jersey.
In New York City, the U -Bahn platforms were converted into saunas when the temperatures for June rose to recording levels in some areas, accompanied by humid moisture levels. In Massachusetts, the heat did not make some flywheel bridges surgical.
The passengers are waiting on the train on Tuesday, June 24th on a U -Bahn platform. – Olga Fedorova/AP
According to the National Weather service, heat waves are the deadliest form of extreme weather in the USA, and while the full extent of deaths or health effects of these heat can take weeks or more to become known, there were prominent cases of heat -related diseases.
At least one death is held responsible for the heat in the area of St. Louis, where a woman lived without water or air conditioning access for three days, the police said.
Sixteen people were sent to the hospital and over 150 were evaluated during two high school graduates in Paterson, New Jersey.
In Washington, DC, a K-pop concert ended early on Monday evening due to a number of heat-related health incidents. And the Washington Monument will be closed on Wednesday due to the hot weather.
Several hospitals, including in New York City and Chicago, had difficulty maintaining their electricity and air conditioning systems, which led to suffocating conditions. In New York, Con Edison asked the residents to save power to avoid roller losses.
Young hikers had to be saved in New Hampshire for heat -related injuries, and in Norfolk, Massachusetts, at least two firefighters were taken to the hospital due to exhaustion, while they fought against flames in record conditions.
And the temperatures in Charlotte, North Carolina, were so hot that athletes who took part in the FIFA Club World Cup games on Tuesday played their teams in the changing room in the replacement bench, said the German professional football team Bayern Munich in one post on X.
Remarkable records
The heat reached its peak in many places on Tuesday, with monthly records of falling from Maine to the middle Atlantic. In Augusta, Maine, the high temperature reached 100 degrees on Tuesday, the hottest for June and the high-temperature record of the regional main.
Boston reached 102 degrees and set up a new high temperature record in June. Tuesday is now bound to the city for the third-haired day for the city, all days that were just as hot or hotter, everyone took place in July or August.
Philadelphia also marked its first 100 degree temperature value since 2012, reached 101 degrees on Tuesday and set the record for the city’s hottest day at the beginning of summer. The city broke the daily high temperature record on Monday when it reached 99 degrees.
The records also fell in Providence, Rhode Island, where the temperatures reached 100 degrees – a new one for June. In the meantime, Newark, New Jersey, 103 degrees and connected the high temperature record in June.
In parts of New York City, the temperatures over the three -digit brand rose. John F. Kennedy’s international airport in Queens scored 102 degrees on Tuesday afternoon – the first time since 2011 and the first time in June – and on Wednesday afternoon. Laguardia Airport, also in Queens, saw a high temperature of 101 degrees and set its record for June.
The forecast high temperatures for most of these locations on Wednesday are in the middle of the 1990s, with heat indices being over 100 degrees.
Construction workers continue to work in New York City on June 23. – Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
A clearer connection to climate change
Studies have shown that heat extremes are clearly associated with global warming, since their probability and severity increase significantly even with increasing average temperature.
An analysis of the non -profit climate of Climate Research showed that climate change occurred on Tuesday the extreme warmth in the middle Atlantic at least five times more often than a modeled world without emissions from burning fossil fuels.
“There is no uncertainty that climate change makes heat waves more intense and more frequently,” said Klimafedi Otto, who leads an international group of world weather attribution, examines extreme weather events and its potential climate change.
“We always had dangerous heat, but in our warming world this heat pushes to new levels and extremes,” said Bernadette Woods Tacky, chief meteorologist at Climate Central.
Since scientists continue to investigate the connections between extreme weather and climate change, the connection becomes increasingly clear.
“Almost all extreme heat events that were analyzed show an impact on climate change – notes that climate change brought the heat to new extremes and often for longer periods,” she told CNN.
CNNS Rebekah Riess and CNN meteorologist Linda Lam contributed to this report.
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