47 ℃!Break the historical record

The western United States has continued to encounter extreme high -temperature weather this summer. Recently, the highest temperature in California for many days has exceeded 40 ° C for many consecutive days, which seriously affects the lives of local residents and has also a heavy burden on local power supply.

With extreme high -temperature weather swept the western region of the United States, California experienced the worst heat wave on the 6th. The weather forecast shows that the entire California and the west of the United States set a series of highest temperature records that day. Among them, the center of Sacraono reached 47 ° C, breaking the historical record of 45 ° C set in 1925; Stockon has reached 46 ° C, which tied the city's highest historical record; Essence Accompanied by the heat wave is the test of the California power system.

Reporter Xu Tao: The continuous high temperature and the invasion of heat wave have brought serious impacts to the lives of the people in the western United States. On September 7, local time, California's power grid operator released a three -level energy emergency alert, which strongly urged residents to be in Reduce energy in high temperature weather.

Governor of California, Governor of California: We are losing electricity, and severe drought means reduction of power. In terms of power supply, we have been challenged by these extreme situations. In terms of demand, people are lowering the air -conditioning temperature, which can understand that people are trying to escape from the heat.

As of the 9th, the third -level energy emergency alert was still effective in California. Power grid operators demanded that residents and enterprises have reduced electricity between 16:00 local time. At the same time, they stated that they did not rule out that in order to prevent fires in the next few days, some families and enterprises suspended power supply. The US Energy Information Administration stated in its short -term energy outlook report that due to the increase in economic activities and the influence of high temperature in summer, the power consumption of the United States this year will reach the highest level of history.

Source: CCTV Finance (ID: cctvyscj)

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