New record heat hits California – homeless people should stay in hotels

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Summer really should have ended.

But the sweltering heat has taken a new hold in California – temperatures have topped 46 degrees.

Homeless people are allowed to stay in hotels – while fear of fires increases.

A severe heat wave swept once again California. state capital Sacramento It measured 46.7 degrees on Tuesday.

The day before, at least 11 different temperature records had been broken in the state, According to CBS News.

Including Livermore, east of San Francisco. There, the thermometer soared to just over 46 degrees — beating the 60-year-old’s record by nearly five degrees.

To escape the heat, air conditioning is turned on in homes and offices. Something is putting pressure on the power grid – which led to widespread blackouts.

Governor Gavin Newsom is now appealing to the state’s 40 million residents to provide more electricity than ever before.

We need everyone — individuals, businesses, state, energy producers — to do our part in the days ahead and help California continue to meet this challenge, he says in a permit.

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Get hotel vouchers

A pool and water park in Brentwood have been forced to close while public buildings have been converted into so-called “cooling centers”, where citizens can cool off, According to the San Francisco Chronicle,.

For their part, the authorities have had to start handing out hotel vouchers to the homeless, so that they have somewhere to go in the dangerous heat, AP . Reports. Something that previously only happened during the coldest days of winter.

Many can stay at home, but not everyone has a home to go to, local spokeswoman Jana Hines tells the news agency.

“trying to survive”

The direct explanation for the heat is that a massive high-pressure system with hot air has stalled over the western United States, forming a so-called thermal dome.

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At the same time, the link to climate change is clear. according to study From last year, similar heat waves would be next to impossible without human greenhouse gas emissions.

Karen Tapia, 22, has no air conditioning at home in the apartment building in South Los Angeles where she lives with her parents, siblings, and seven-month-old baby. She is now forced to take her daughter to the grocery store to benefit from the air conditioning there.

– We’re just trying to survive, she says The Los Angeles Times.

Houses are burning

Heat increases the risk of fires and makes them difficult to fight once they start. Over the weekend, four people were killed in various fires and at least 100 homes were destroyed. 4000 firefighters I worked with the fire brigade.

At the same time, many other natural disasters associated with the climate crisis are occurring around the world. Pakistan was hit by a “brutal monsoon” that caused the worst floods in at least twelve years. Meanwhile, in North Africa, millions of people are fleeing a severe drought that has wiped out crops and killed livestock.