HOT!

]Up and down the east coast is suffering from a major heat wave.

Starting with the July 4th holiday weekend and now with people having returned to work, utility demand is up.

From the My Way website:”After an extended Fourth of July weekend when temperatures inched into at least the 90s from Maine to Texas and into the Southwest and Death Valley, the mid-Atlantic is embarking on a string of intensely hot days, with temperatures in some places closing in on 100-plus degrees.
Temperatures could reach as high as 102 degrees on Tuesday, meteorologists said, and Wednesday was forecast to be the most humid day of the stretch.
And unlike on the long Independence Day weekend, when utilities had lower demand for power, the masses returning to work Tuesday amid the possible record-setting heat across the Northeast threatened to push utilities usage to record levels.”

It was expected, being today people who did not take this week off were coming back to work. Going further on in the news article:”Demand was anticipated to increase when offices reopened Tuesday, said Bob McGee, spokesman for the Consolidated Edison utility in New York. Con Ed was preparing for peak usage to break the record set on Aug. 2, 2006, he said.
In Philadelphia, the increased load from the heat blew fuses at transformers run by the Peco utility, said spokeswoman Karen Muldoon Geus. About 1,900 customers were without power Tuesday morning, down from about 8,000 on Monday.
Davey Adams, 45, was headed back to his job Tuesday morning as a forklift driver at a package company warehouse in Philadelphia that has no air conditioning, just fans.
He said he planned to use “cold water and a washcloth” draped over his head to keep cool.
He had spent the weekend at his son’s house at the New Jersey shore, where it was too hot even to sit at the beach, he said, so they stayed inside.
In the East, warm air is “sitting over the top of us, and it’s not really going to budge much for the next day or two,” Brian Korty, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Camp Springs, Md., said Monday. After that, he said, a system coming in off the Atlantic Ocean would bring in cooler temperatures.
Korty stressed that the danger from increasing temperatures was likely to grow.
“As the temperature and humidity both get higher, the stress it can put on the human body increases,” he said, “and therefore the higher the temperature and higher the humidity, the greater the chance of people having problems.”

IMHO, we were due or rather overdue for a possible hot and dry summer. My advice is to take it easy and take care of one’s self.

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