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Conservation, cooler temps help California power grid
2013-07-03 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A second day of conservation efforts and slightly lower temperatures helped the California power grid avoid potential problems on Tuesday as a widespread heat wave across the West begins to moderate. The region's power supply also improved Tuesday afternoon as PG&E Corp's 1,122-MW Diablo Canyon 1 nuclear reactor reconnected to the grid and began to increase output, the utility said. Generating resources in California were below par this week after the permanent closure in June of the 2,150-MW...
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Record-breaking High Temps End June, More Heat to Come
2013-07-01 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: June ended with temperatures in the western United States tying or breaking all-time nationwide records for heat in the sixth month. In Death Valley National Park, a thermometer monitored by the National Weather Service reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit Sunday, which the Associated Press reports is a tie for the hottest June day recorded anywhere in the country. But a National Parks Service thermometer about 200 yards away from the NWS device reportedly read 129.9 F, which breaks the record for hottest...
Temps to hover around 100
2013-06-29 09:04:57| Waste Management - Topix.net
Hazy pollution that has descended on San Antonio has led to an air-quality alert for Saturday - edging the city closer to a pollution violation - but the National Weather Service is hopeful winds will dissipate the haze by the afternoon.
Alaska Feels Record High Temps, NASA Takes Rare Overhead Photo of the State Cloudfree
2013-06-25 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A high pressure system over Alaska enabled NASA to capture a rare satellite image of the state almost completely devoid of cloud cover, but the odd and unusually hot weather has some climate scientists concerned. Most days, the state is awash in clouds, which obscure much of Alaska's 6,640 miles (10,690 km) of coastline and 586,000 square miles (1,518,000 square km) of land. The image above was taken on June 17 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite and...
NASA image shows nearly ice-free Alaska as temps top 96 degrees
2013-06-24 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: After a colder-than-average spring, Alaska is suffering a sudden and record-breaking heatwave. Temperatures on Monday, June 17th hit a stunning 96 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) in Talkeetna, Alaska, just below the state's highest temperature ever record of 98 degrees Fahrenheit in 1969. On the same day, NASA's Terra Satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) took a rare image of a cloud-free Alaska. "Other towns in southern [besides Talkeetna] Alaska set all-time...
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