117 degrees! Las Vegas ties all-time record as deadly heat wave bakes West
Parts
of the country are experiencing triple-digit temperatures as Sunday
marked day three of a heat wave that has punished much of the western
United States. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
The
Southwest again saw soaring temperatures on Sunday, with Las Vegas
tying an all-time high of 117 degrees and forecasters predicting the
aptly named Furnace Creek in the heart of Death Valley, Calif., falling
just short of a 100-year high of 130 degrees.The deadly scorcher in the West led the National Weather Service to post excessive heat warnings for large parts of California as well as Nevada and Arizona, and heat advisories for other parts of Nevada as well four other western states.
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Death
Valley National Park employee Anna Gilay makes her usual seven-mile
morning run at 6:55 a.m. with the unofficial temperature already
reaching 103 degrees as a heat wave spreads across the West on Sunday.
Seven people were hospitalized for heat-related health illnesses on Sunday, the Las Vegas Sun reported.
The heat wave turned deadly in Sin City Saturday when a Las Vegas Fire & Rescue crew responded to a report of an elderly man in cardiac arrest at a residence without air conditioning.
When paramedics arrived, they found the man was dead, NBC station KSNV reported. The man, who was not identified, did have medical issues, but paramedics characterized his death as heat-related.
In Furnace Creek — one of the hottest places on Earth — temperatures didn't quite reach the forecast 130. Instead, the weather station at Death Valley National Park reported a high of 128 degrees, still tying the record for the highest reading in the United States during the month of June. The Weather Service extended the excessive heat warning for parts of California and Nevada into the July 4 holiday.
The highest-ever recorded air temperature on the planet, according to the Weather Service, was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley’s Greenland Ranch.
Heat advisories were also in effect Sunday into Tuesday for the Pacific Northwest, where highs in Seattle and Portland could reach into the 90s. East of the Cascade Mountains and into the Columbia River Gorge temperatures could even soar to more than 105 degrees, according to the Weather Service.
In Arizona on Sunday, 50 homes in the central Arizona community of Yarnell had to be evacuated as searing temperatures, low humidity and winds allowed a wildfire to spread.
And in Pasadena, Calif., where temperatures soared into triple digits, at least 12 runners in a marathon event experienced heat-related illnesses, Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian told NBCLosAngeles.com. Four men in their 20s were transported to hospitals in serious condition during the race, she said.
Saturday saw a slew of weather records broken, Weather.com reported, including in Phoenix, Ariz., which saw its fourth-hottest day in history, with a temperature of 119 degrees.
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