Although authorities in many parts of the US have been warning repeatedly about the dangers of the heat wave for days, recreational athletes have taken these warnings lightly – with fatal consequences. Three hikers died on Monday.
A 52-year-old man and his 23-year-old daughter died while hiking in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, authorities said Monday. The two got lost and didn’t have enough water with them in temperatures of around 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). When they were found by park rangers, they were already dead.
In the same state’s Snow Canyon Nature Park, a 30-year-old woman was found dead during a rescue operation for two hikers suffering from heatstroke. The western United States has been experiencing extremely high temperatures for two weeks, which have already led to several deaths.
Temperature record in Las Vegas
An extreme heat warning was in effect for 150 million people in the region on Monday. A week and a half ago, the highest temperature ever measured was 48.9 degrees in the casino city of Las Vegas.
Hurricane in Chicago
In the so-called Midwest, in the middle of the US, violent storms and extreme heat kept people on edge. A group of “destructive thunderstorms” moved through the state of Illinois on Monday night, according to the US weather service. Several tornadoes have been reported in the past two days and temporary workers in the Chicago metropolitan area had to seek shelter for a hurricane.
Hundreds of thousands of households without electricity
Local media reported uprooted trees and downed power poles. There were initially no reports of injuries. According to NBC, tornadoes are extremely rare in Chicago. The last time a tornado was confirmed in the city was in August 2020. In addition to Illinois, the neighboring state of Indiana was also hit by the storms. According to the website poweroutage.us, more than 500,000 homes in the two states lost power.
The storm was caused by cool air masses from Canada colliding with a so-called heat dome — a high-pressure area that traps heat as if it were under a large dome — over the central and eastern US.
Source: Krone
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