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A4 U.S. NEWS
Wednesday 27 July 2022
Northwestern U.S. set for its hottest day of long heat wave

By CLAIRE RUSH While temperatures this
Associated Press/Report for week are not expected to
America get that high, the anticipat-
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — ed number of consecutive
Temperatures are predict- hot days has raised con-
ed to soar to 100 degrees cerns among officials.
in Portland, Oregon on The National Weather Ser-
Tuesday, which is expected vice in Portland issued an
to be the hottest day of a extreme heat warning for
heat spell that meteorolo- large swaths of Oregon
gists believe will be unusu- and Washington state out
ally long for the Pacific of concern that nighttime
Northwest region, which temperatures won't help
rarely sees such scorching residents to sufficiently cool
weather. off. "The main reason for
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown that warning is because
declared a state of emer- of those low temperatures
gency across much of the only getting into the 65 to
state, warning the extreme 70 degree range, and the
temperatures may cause fact that this is such a long
utility outages and trans- duration event," said Colby
portation disruptions. Neuman, a meteorologist
"With many parts of Oregon Brian Gadzuk, 56, clears out the trunk of his Jeep to make space for a new air conditioning unit in at the National Weather
facing a high heat wave, it the parking lot of McLendon Hardware in Renton, Wash., on Sunday, July 24, 2022. Service in Portland.
is critical that every level Associated Press The forecasted lows "are
of government has the re- only happening for one
sources they need to help consecutive day of 100 de- trying to adjust to the likely ants from installing cooling or two hours, right around
keep Oregonians safe and grees or higher, the longest reality of longer, hotter heat devices in their rental units. sunrise. And that's it," said
healthy," Brown said in a such streak since records waves following last sum- About 800 people died in Neuman. "There isn't a lot
statement. began in 1931. Boston also mer's deadly "heat dome" Oregon, Washington and of time for households and
As the northwestern U.S. hit 100 degrees, surpassing weather phenomenon that British Columbia during the apartments to cool off."
heated up, the hot spell on the previous daily record prompted record tempera- 2021 heat wave in late Portland seems to be on
the East Coast appeared high of 98 degrees (36.6 tures and deaths. June and early July. The track to "either tying or ex-
to have broken, with few Celsius) set in 1933. In response, Oregon temperature at the time ceeding" previous heat
areas east of the Mississippi On Tuesday, highs were passed a law requiring all soared to 116 degrees F wave duration records,
River under heat advisories forecasted for the mid-80s new housing built after (46.7 C) in Portland and Neuman said. The record
on Tuesday. (about 29 Celsius) in Phila- April 2024 to have air con- smashed heat records in stands at six consecutive
Philadelphia hit 99 degrees delphia, New York and Bos- ditioning installed in at least cities and towns across the days of 95 degrees (35C)
(37 Celsius) Sunday before ton. one room. The law already region. Many of those who or higher, which has only
factoring in humidity. New- Residents and officials in prohibits landlords in most died were elderly and lived been reached twice be-
ark, New Jersey, had its fifth the Northwest have been cases from restricting ten- alone. fore. q

Body near Lake Mead swimming site 3rd to surface since May

corpse was submerged in face has dropped more gated as a homicide after
the Boulder Beach area than 170 feet (52 meters) police said the man had
before it was found Mon- since the reservoir was full been shot and his clothing
day by people who sum- in 1983. It is now about 30% dated to the mid-1970s to
moned park rangers. full. early 1980s.
Clark County Coroner Mel- The coroner said her of- The discoveries have
anie Rouse said Tuesday it fice was continuing work to prompted speculation
was partially encased in identify a man whose body about long-unsolved miss-
mud at the water line of the was found May 1 in a rust- ing person and murder cas-
swimming area along the ed barrel in the Hemenway es dating back decades —
shore north of Hemenway Harbor area and a man to organized crime and the
Harbor marina. whose bones were found early days of Las Vegas,
The gender of the dead May 7 in a newly surfaced which is just a 30-minute
person was not immedi- sand bar near Callville Bay, drive from the lake.
ately apparent, Rouse said, more than 9 miles (14.5 ki- The drop in the lake level
and it was too early to tell lometers) from the marina. comes while a vast majority
A formerly sunken boat sits on cracked earth hundreds of feet
from the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National a time, cause and manner On July 6, the body of a of peer-reviewed science
Recreation Area on May 10, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. of death. Investigators will 22-year-old Boulder City says the world is warming,
Associated Press review missing persons re- woman was found in the mainly because of rising
cords as part of the effort, water near where she dis- levels of carbon dioxide
By KEN RITTER Colorado River reservoir Rouse said. appeared while riding a and other greenhouse gas-
Associated Press behind Hoover Dam re- The corpse was the third personal watercraft. Rouse es in the atmosphere. Sci-
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Another cedes because of drought found since May as the said it may take several entists say the U.S. West, in-
body has surfaced at Lake and climate change. shoreline retreats at the weeks to determine her cluding the Colorado River
Mead — this time in a swim- The National Park Service shrinking reservoir between cause of death. basin, has become warmer
ming area where water did not say in a statement Nevada and Arizona east The case of the body in the and drier in the past 30
levels have dropped as the how long officials think the of Las Vegas. The lake sur- barrel was being investi- years.q