Triple-Digit Heat Dome Bakes Pacific Northwest, Triggers Blackout
The Pacific Northwest is experiencing a multi-day heat wave that we said last week would be “historic.” The unrelenting triple-digit temperatures shattered records across the region and have stressed out power grids where rolling blackouts have been reported.
Bloomberg reports Avista Corporation, which supplies electricity to 340,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers, triggered its first rolling blackout across its grid after it became overloaded Monday evening. Rotating outages first hit 9,300 customers late Monday and could expand as temperatures remain well above average through July 4.
Avista was the first major utility to report rolling blackouts in the Northwest region, and with positive temperature anomalies to linger through the week, it may not be the last.
Avista has never “experienced this kind of demand on our system and this kind of impact to our system,” Heather Rosentrater, senior vice president of energy delivery at the utility company, told reporters during a press conference Monday. She called the weather event “very unprecedented.”
As we noted last Friday, “a “historic” heat wave was set to transform the Pacific Northwest into a furnace this weekend. It has the potential to shatter long-standing temperature records.” And that is precisely what it did.
Major metros, such as Portland and Seattle, broke record highs by huge margins as positive temperature anomalies reached between 30 to 40 degrees.
Portland hit 116 degrees by Monday afternoon, the highest temperature in more than eight decades of record-keeping. It was the third day of triple-digit temps.
Seattle recorded 108 degrees Monday afternoon, easily surpassing its previous 103-degree record from 2009. Positive temperature anomalies for the city yesterday were 34 degrees, usually temps average around 74 degrees.
The Pacific Northwest is a region where many people lack central air conditioning and experiencing multiple days of triple-digit weather is hazardous for health.
Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College, said it’s unheard of to have temperatures in Portland and Seattle hovering in triple-digit territory. “That just doesn’t occur.”
“Tuesday will likely be the hottest day in recorded history for many sites across the Inland Northwest,” the National Weather Service in Spokane warned.
… and, of course, higher temperatures always indicate increased power demand and skyrocketing prices.
Electricity prices at a Pacific Northwest jumped 435 percent to $334.22 a megawatt-hour on Monday.
So with sizzling temperatures forecasted for Tuesday, rolling blackouts might expand as power grids in the region are stretched.
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Mark Tapley
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Weather in the continental U.S. is variable. Here in Texas last winter we had unusually cold weather. This can be expected once in a while just like the heat wave in the north west. What should not be tolerated is a first world country that cannot supply reasonably priced and reliable electricity. People need to realize that the further we go down the “Green Energy” Zionist rat hole of wind mills and solar panel fraud the worse things will be. and that is the plan. To destroy the industrial economies, take out real power generation and blame it all on “climate change.”
If the U.S. can spend 0ver 700 billion per yr. (this does not include lots that are off budget spending) on so called “defense” most of which is for pay and pensions and most of the rest to execute the Zionist agenda for the “War On Terror” for Greater Israel including 11 million per day just in direct military aid to this terrorist state, then we should demand electric grids designed for 1st class countries, not third world rat holes.
https://blackjunction.com/post/300266_joe-biden-i-am-a-zionist-you-don-t-have-to-a-jew-to-be-a-zionist.html?lang=spanish
https://www.bitchute.com/video/x68pIHNVQr7c/
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Boris Badenov
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Many decades ago when I was in school, we were told that CONTUS had the most variable and severe weather of any place on the planet. Now this was way back before Glowbull (insert something here) was started.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Boris:
Exactly, but many of the goyim, I think particularly those who live in urban areas (ap. 82%) just go by what the Jew MSM tell them. All they have to do is tell them it’s global warming or now climate change and they believe it. This is all the same old Club of Rome, WEF, Davos, Rockefeller, Rothschild crowd that control all the political puppets and are also behind the fake virus.
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RT
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https://electroverse.net/accuweather-meteorologist-global-warming-not-to-blame-for-northwests-heatwave/ https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/06/30/the-big-heat-post-mortem-and-the-next-few-days/ What goes up comes back down. Totally normal reason for what happened. The pacific northwest version of the Santa Anna’ winds, downsloping off the mountains.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi RT,
Went to your link and read it and did not find any mention of “Santa Anna’ winds”. During increase of temperature from day to day at Salem OR any winds in the W. Valley could be generalized to have been almost calm. It was not until the moderate west wind from the Coast abruptly cooled Salem about 50F in a few hours and this west wind had to flow down the EAST SIDE of the Coast Range. But, of course, it first had to flow up the West side of the Coast Range and be further cooled so the warming of the down slope partially offset the previously cooling. And of course the downslope flow had to have been warmed by extremely hot earth surface which was only being to be cooled by the cool atmosphere of the Coast.
So, I cannot accept that anyone knows how these extreme record temperatures were created expect by those who accurately predicted them more than a week in advance. And I have yet to read their explanation for the accurate prediction.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Squidly
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I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. Was born there in ’62 .. this kind of weather is not all that unusual. I spent many a summer day out roaming the desert, or riding my motocross bike with my pals, in south east Washington, during 110F + weather. .. Meh, this is a lot about nothing. Been there, done that .. many many times.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Squidly and PSI Readers,
(https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?waWESC). This RAWS site is at Esure WA, 1653ft elev, Lat 47N, Long 118W. and its data is from 2002 to the present. I only reviewed the max’temp for June. And there are a few years when the max.temp increase to 110F near the summer solstice but they are a minority. And there is a 5 or so continuous sequence of years when the max.temp hardly makes it into the low 90s. Which I find quite interesting which I need to explore. For I am aware of some cyclic variable factors which might be NATURALLY influencing the clouds and thereby solar radiation.
Is this location near where you were riding your bike?
Have a good day, Jerry
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