Excessive heat warning issued in California

Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-06 11:54:32|Editor: Xiang Bo
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LOS ANGELES, July 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) issued an excessive heat warning to California Wednesday afternoon, predicting that the southern California region could face a new record high temperature this week.

"An upper level high pressure system centered over the desert southwest will continue to strengthen and expand westward through Saturday," NWS said. "This will bring widespread triple digit heat to interior sections through at least Saturday with advisory heat starting Thursday."

The NWS estimates that on Friday and Saturday high temperature in many interior sections of Southwest California could be between 105 and 110 Fahrenheit degrees (40.5 and 43.3 Centigrade degrees), while it could approach 120 Fahrenheit degrees (48.9 Centigrade degrees) in some places.

The very high temperatures would not only increase the threat of heat related illnesses, but also create a dangerous situation to bring elevated fire weather conditions through the weekend, said the NWS.

In the Sierra Nevada mountain area located in central California, fire danger warnings were posted Wednesday from Sequoia to Yosemite. Earlier, flood warnings due to snow melt were posted for northern Mono County in California and southern Lyon County in Nevada.

Moreover, the heatwave could cause a disaster for livestock. The Fresno Bee newspaper reported that last week, due to the unusual run of heat in June, including nine straight days of triple-digit temperatures, an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 livestock died.

Since Central California's largest rendering plant was overwhelmed by the number of cows that died during a June heatwave, the report said, Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties had to declare a state of emergency, giving dairies permission to bury or compost the carcasses on site under a strict set of temporary rules outlined by state water and agricultural agencies.

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