Millions of people in the United States and Canada experience new heat wave – telam

Millions of peoples in the west United States and Canada were touched this Sunday by a new scorching heat wave, with some roads closed, limited rail traffic and evacuation orders.

In Canada, where forest fires continue to spread 50 projectors Further stated in the past two days, the government announced new emergency measures to prevent the blaze, AFP reported.

The thermometer rose over the weekend across much of the the pacific coast and inland to the western limit of the Montaas Rocosas, with even higher forecasts for this Sunday.

“A dangerous heat wave will affect much of the western United States, with possibly record high temperatures,” the National Weather Service said on Sunday, as Canadian meteorologists forecast highs near 32 degrees in parts of western United States, well above seasonal norms.

This Sunday is expected to be just a few degrees cooler, as Death Valley, Calif., Hit 52.2 degrees.

Meteorologists have issued a warning bulletin for the metropolitan area, as well as for several other urban centers, including Phoenix (south) and San Jos, in central Silicon Valley, not far from San Francisco.

“More than 30 million people remain subject to extreme heat alerts or heat warnings,” the NWS said on Saturday, adding that dangerous high temperatures and dry conditions are expected to continue until Sunday.

This new heat wave comes less than three weeks after another that hit the western United States and Canada in late June, with record temperatures for three consecutive days in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The conditions of this wave have broken the historic record for high temperature for three consecutive days in this province.

The Canadian Minister of Transport, Omar Alghabra, announced this Sunday new emergency measures for prevent forest fires in the region, in particular by slowing down and limiting rail traffic.

Trains are one of the common causes of forest fires, usually due to the lack of maintenance of their spark arresters.

Several roads and highways in the British Columbia area have been closed because the government has called the risk of forest fires “extreme” and a dozen towns or villages remain under fire orders. evacuation.

The Canadian government sent investigators to the town of Lytton, 250 kilometers northeast of Vancouver, to see if a passing freight train could cause the fire in late June that destroyed 90% of the city.

As of Sunday morning, the number of wildfires in British Columbia continued to rise, reaching 298, officials said.

Last month was the hottest June on record in North America, according to data released by the European Union’s climate monitoring service.

So far, human activity has caused the global temperature to rise by about 1.1 degrees Celsius, resulting in more destructive storms, more intense heat waves, droughts and an increase in forest fires.

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the British Weather Service, there is a 40% chance that the annual global average temperature will temporarily rise 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures over the next five years.

The last six years to 2020 are the hottest six years on record.