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Another heat advisory for Louisiana
By Thursday night, just under 150,000 remained in the dark, according to PowerOutage.us. Energy customers in Mississippi and Alabama also experienced outages as Francine’s strong winds and heavy ...
Beginning in March 2024, severe heat waves impacted Mexico, the Southern and Western United States, and Central America, leading to dozens of broken temperature records, [1] mass deaths of animals from several threatened species, water shortages requiring rationing, [2] increased forest fires, and over 155 deaths in Mexico with 2,567 people suffering from heat-related ailments. [3]
Louisiana bore the brunt of the outages, with more than 58,000. The South has been battered by several rounds of rain and severe thunderstorms over the past week.
More than 100 million people were put on heat alerts, and over 85% of the country had temperatures at or above 90 °F (32 °C). A man died in Dallas County, Texas, and a heat emergency was triggered in Washington DC due to temperatures over 95 °F (35 °C), on the weekend of July 23–24. This extreme heat severely intensifies drought conditions.
March 2008 – The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well, located in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles (66 km) off the Louisiana coast, were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206, held in New Orleans.
Nearly 73 million people in the United States were under extreme heat alerts Monday as a heat wave moved eastward, and the mid-Atlantic and New England were likely to see highs in the 90s as the ...
On Wednesday, Bangor, Maine, had a heat index of 106 degrees — the highest ever for the city. Boston also hit a high of 98 degrees , breaking the previous daily high of 96 set in 1923.