Record assoluto a Los Angeles

[Romagna72]

ieri +45°C nella DownTown complice il vento che da terra soffia verso l' oceano.

[Flavio 78]

Incredibile,nonostante il periodo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Flavio 78]

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[Josh]

Spessp Los Angeles vede picchi di calore proprio in questo periodo,ricordo un ottobre rovente di pochi anni(forse era il 2005).Le stagioni non sono molto definite lì,complici la bassa latitudine e l'influsso dell'Oceano.

[Cliff]

Il periodo autunnale presenta i picchi di calore più elevati nella zona di Los Angeles a causa dei venti di caduta chiamati "Santa Ana": il valore più elevato nella stazione di Long Beach, ad esempio, è stato registrato il 16 ottobre 1958 con ben 44°C, la stazione dell'aeroporto ha il suo record di massima registrato il 26 settembre 1963 con 43°C

[Augustano DOC]

Una situazione del genere a Los Angeles 1 mese prima avrebbe portato sicuramente, 1°-2° in più d max assoluta!!

[Stefano De C.]

Spessp Los Angeles vede picchi di calore proprio in questo periodo,ricordo un ottobre rovente di pochi anni(forse era il 2005).Le stagioni non sono molto definite lì,complici la bassa latitudine e l'influsso dell'Oceano.

Però, picchi di calore così sono dovuti agli effetti favonici delle montagne rocciose

[Romagna72]

più che per effetto delle montagne è dettato dal fatto che il deserto è dietro le montagne..

[Stefano De C.]

più che per effetto delle montagne è dettato dal fatto che il deserto è dietro le montagne..

Sì ma sono montagne alte oltre 4000 m, aria che parte già calda le scavalca e diventa bollente. Il vento si chiama Santa Ana

[handyman]

Poco clamore, ma la notizia è senza dubbio uno degli eventi del tempo 2010:

toccati i 45,5° (114F) alla periferia della città degli Angeli

Downtown Los Angeles hit 113F (45 Celsius) for a few minutes at about 12:15pm local time, breaking the former record of 112F (44 Celsius) set on June 26, 1990. Temperature records for the area date to 1877.
The historic moment came during a series of days well over 100F (38 Celsius) in many cities ranging from Anaheim, home of Disneyland, to San Luis Obispo on the usually balmy Central Coast.
Firefighters carried heavy hoses up hills to battle a small but persistent brush fire west of Los Angeles in Thousand Oaks while other workers in less strenuous jobs also struggled through the day.
Electrical demand was much higher than normal as millions of air conditioners were turned on.
Some people were able to seek relief at the beaches - though not in the hundreds of thousands who turned out over the weekend as the heat wave built.
The city of Los Angeles urged people to use Parks and Recreation facilities, senior centres and libraries to cool down in.
The National Weather Service said the dry heat was being caused by a ridge of high pressure over the West that was keeping the Pacific Ocean's normal moist and cool influence at bay.
The autumnal blast of intense heat follows an unusually cool summer that often left beaches covered in overcast and whipped by chilly winds.


fattori locali (venti secchi dall'interno) hanno acuito la subsidenza di un robusto anticiclone costiero.
Gli effetti della potente struttura di alta non hanno tardato a farsi sentire su tutta la West Coast: 34° a San Francisco e numerosi 31° sino a Seattle (diversi i record di sempre superati).

Insomma: la Nigna è in gran spolvero!

Qui un bel racconto dalla cronista di Bloomber: pensate che la giornata del 28, alle 9.32 già c'erano 33°. Vi ricordo che siamo in ottobre e non in luglio, anche in California!
Curioso perché tra l'altro si ricorda che quella passata è stata la seconda estate più fresca per la California dal 1944..

Los Angeles residents, no strangers to heat, are broiling as temperatures hit records in a post- summer swelter. Schools canceled recess, firefighters aided heat victims and the public poured onto beaches to cool off.
Yesterday’s peak of 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 Celsius) in Los Angeles surpassed the previous mark of 112 degrees set on June 26, 1990, Stuart Seto, a specialist with the National Weather Service, said in an interview. It was the hottest day since record-keeping began in 1877.
“There’s hot, and then there’s hot,” said Byron Tyler, a resident walking in Hollywood yesterday after lunch. He shared a photo sent to his cell phone by a friend in the nearby San Fernando Valley whose car dashboard thermometer displayed 121 degrees. “Looking at that I don’t feel so bad.”
The early fall heat wave produced two consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures, according to the Weather Service. Downtown Los Angeles was expected to drop to the mid- to upper- 90s today, Seto said. Valley areas, some of which are within city limits, will remain above 100 until tomorrow.
Los Angeles Police reported one suspected case of heat- related death. Hollywood film editor Sally Menke, 56, was found on a trail in the Hollywood Hills with her black Labrador retriever at her side and was pronounced dead this morning, said Lieutenant Cheryl MacWillie, a coroner’s spokeswoman.
Menke served as editor on films by Quentin Tarantino including “Pulp Fiction,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” and “Kill Bill: Vol. 2,” according to the Internet Movie Database.
Power Failures
About 15,000 Los Angeles residents were without electricity as of 8 a.m. local time today, according to the Department of Water & Power. The hardest hit areas were Westchester, on L.A.’s west side, with 2,411 customers affected, and Hollywood at 1,730, the DWP said in an e-mailed statement. The utility has about 1.4 million electric customers.
The temperature downtown was 89 degrees at 9:47 a.m. local time, according to the Weather Service.
“We’ve gotten many calls today that are heat related -- heat exhaustion, heat strokes,” Mike Brown, battalion chief at the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said yesterday. “It’s happening all over the map.”
Beaches were busier than usual for a Monday as people sought to cool down, Brown said yesterday. Some motorists didn’t make it. Dispatch calls were running 14 percent higher than on a typical Monday, said Jeffrey Spring, a spokesman for AAA Southern California.
Cars Overheat
“We’re averaging 2,000 calls an hour,” Spring said in an interview. “There are a lot of dead batteries because they tend to give up when they’re not in good shape in this kind of weather. Overheated vehicles, where belts and hoses aren’t doing their job.”
Tyler, a 47-year-old independent bookseller, said the unprecedented heat may persuade him to turn on the central air conditioning at home. It would be the first time in more than two years. As others did the same, the city’s DWP advised residents to conserve energy to avoid overtaxing the grid.
“The power system is operating normally,” Carol Tucker, a spokeswoman for the department, said in an interview. “There’s currently no major outages that are heat related.”
The Los Angeles Unified School District canceled athletic events and other outdoor activities, invoking an “extreme caution” policy that is triggered when the temperature reaches 95 degrees or above, said Gayle Pollard-Terry, a spokeswoman.
Late Summer
The 617,000-student district, the nation’s second-largest, will continue the precautions tomorrow, Pollard-Terry said. Parents of elementary-school students are being asked to send their children to school either with a frozen bottle of water or a thermos of cold water, she said.
The heat wave follows a summer that was the second-coolest since at least 1944, according the Weather Service.
The past several days have made up for it, said Brent Toney, a 25-year-old actor who sat with a friend outside a Starbucks, drinking iced coffees to ward off the heat.


“We didn’t have much of a summer before,” Toney said. “Everyone who was complaining then is complaining now that we’re finally getting one.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Michael White in Los Angeles at mwhite8@bloomberg.net; Nadja Brandt in Los Angeles at nbrandt@bloomberg.net