The weather in the USA...

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A Bundy-Linked Group Is Rallying Farmers in Drought-Stricken Oregon. Things Are Getting Weird.
June 19, 2021
People’s Rights hosted a “motivational speaker” who writes for a white-nationalist paper.

Far-right agitators and militia groups have been gravitating to southern Oregon over the past few weeks, threatening an armed staredown with the federal government over water supplies that are seriously depleted because of a massive drought. In what could amount to the first modern climate-driven standoff in the US, some farmers in the Klamath basin are angry that the Bureau of Reclamation has shut off water to an irrigation canal that feeds 200,000 acres of farmland in southern Oregon to preserve the spawning grounds of endangered suckerfish sacred to local Native tribes.

Organizers affiliated with People’s Rights, a network created by the far-right activist Ammon Bundy, have purchased land next to the irrigation project and created a “water crisis info center” in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where they’ve been threatening to bust open the canal gates to let water flow, setting the stage for a fight over endangered species and Native America rights. The center—essentially a big tent—is supposed to be educating locals about water rights and and raising support for the cause among the locals. But at a meeting on Thursday night, People’s Rights Oregon hosted “motivational speaker” Maggie Rose McGrath, whose expertise on water rights seemed a little thin.

 

[Flavour]

People often associate Oregon with the far-left because of Portland but the countryside is very much Trumpland, and there's a long history of racism embedded in Oregon's very statehood. It may be the only state in the US to have banned black people from even entering the territory.

Oregon black exclusion laws - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Portland records hottest day ever amid Northwest scorcher

Utility workers and wildlife managers across the Pacific Northwest were trying to keep people and animals safe as a historic heat wave scorched the region and sent residents searching for relief.

apnews.com

The extreme and dangerous heat was expected to break all-time records in cities and towns from eastern Washington state to Portland to southern Oregon as concerns mounted about wildfire risk in a region that is already experiencing a crippling and extended drought.

 

[brogdale]

Portland records hottest day ever amid Northwest scorcher

Utility workers and wildlife managers across the Pacific Northwest were trying to keep people and animals safe as a historic heat wave scorched the region and sent residents searching for relief.

apnews.com

I've experienced a spell of +40C temperatures during the French canicule of August 2003, (peaking for us at 42.7C) and it wasn't fun.

 

[spring-peeper]

I know this thread is about the US, but we share the same weather.



Many parts of the Thompson-Okanagan broke temperature records on Saturday, including Vernon, Kelowna, Osoyoos and Kamloops.

The weather is expected to get hotter in this last week of June, with some local temperatures expected to rise to almost 46 C by Tuesday.

 

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[cyberpink]

USA is destined to destroy itself. I feel nothing anymore when I read of mass shootings. Shame, because at least half of them are nice people.

 

[petee]

USA is destined to destroy itself. I feel nothing anymore when I read of mass shootings. Shame, because at least half of them are nice people.

but this is in canada, eh.

 

[spring-peeper]

USA is destined to destroy itself. I feel nothing anymore when I read of mass shootings. Shame, because at least half of them are nice people.

Find the right thread for your comments...this one is about weather.

 

[Raheem]

The BBC news yesterday had this as a heatwave covering "Canada and parts of the US". Presumably because Canada is geographically indivisible.

 

[spring-peeper]

The BBC news yesterday had this as a heatwave covering "Canada and parts of the US". Presumably because Canada is geographically indivisible.

Heat wave update: 486 sudden deaths reported in B.C. over 5 days

A staggering 486 sudden and unexpected deaths were reported across British Columbia over the past five days as the province suffered under a blistering heat wave, coroners said Wednesday.

bc.ctvnews.ca

Those temperatures are not a game

 

[not-bono-ever]

A mate lives on a boat in Seattle harbour- He’s pretty shocked at what is happening. Most apartments don’t really have a/c as it’s normally a temperate area.pop across to Idaho and it’s up to 10c higher

 

[spring-peeper]

These Photos Show How Intense The Dangerous Heat Wave Is In The Pacific Northwest

People across the Pacific Northwest are coping with extreme temperatures this week in what experts say is just the latest example of how the climate crisis is affecting public health.

www.buzzfeednews.com

 

[petee]

yikes

BREAKING: Footage shows homes, buildings up in flames as wildfire races through Lytton

Mayor says fire came up in minutes and is sweeping through the community

www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com

On June 29, Lytton recorded a temperature of 49.6 C; the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada. It was the third day in a row that the community broke the record for hottest temperature ever seen in the country.

 

[petee]

up the beavers!
so to speak.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article252187473.html

" “It was insane, it was awesome,” said Lynnette Batt, the conservation director of the Placer Land Trust, which owns and maintains the Doty Ravine Preserve.

“It went from dry grassland. .. to totally revegetated, trees popping up, willows, wetland plants of all types, different meandering stream channels across about 60 acres of floodplain,” she said."

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Ecosystems depend on all the various niche animals doing what they do, even predators such as wolves:

 

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California wildfire advances as heat wave blankets US West

Firefighters are struggling to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave hits the U.S. West this weekend.

apnews.com

Palm Springs in Southern California hit a record high temperature of 120 F (49 C) Saturday. It was the fourth time temperatures have reached 120 degrees so far this year, the Desert Sun reported.

In California’s agricultural Central Valley, 100-degree temperatures blanketed the region, with Fresno reaching 111 degrees F (44 C), just one degree short of the all-time high for the date,

Las Vegas late Saturday afternoon tied the all-time record high of 117 F (47 C), the National Weather Service said. The city has recorded that record-high temperature four other times, most recently in June 2017.

NV Energy, Nevada’s largest power provider, also urged customers to conserve electricity Saturday and Sunday evenings because of the heat wave and wildfires affecting transmission lines throughout the region.

In Southern California, a brush fire sparked by a burning big rig in eastern San Diego County forced evacuations of two Native American reservations Saturday.

In north-central Arizona, Yavapai County on Saturday lifted an evacuation warning for Black Canyon City, an unincorporated town 43 miles (66 kilometers) north of Phoenix, after a fire in nearby mountains no longer posed a threat. In Mohave County, Arizona, two firefighters died Saturday after a aircraft they were in to respond to a small wildfire crashed, local media reported.

A wildfire in southeast Washington grew to almost 60 square miles (155 square kilometers) as it blackened grass and timber while it moved into the Umatilla National Forest.

In Idaho, Gov. Brad Little declared a wildfire emergency Friday and mobilized the state’s National Guard to help fight fires sparked after lightning storms swept across the drought-stricken region.

 

[petee]

bit warm

www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/death-valley-top-5-again-130-degree-reading-disputed/979835/amp

 

[petee]

pics and tweets within

Smokey Skies From West Coast Wildfires Offer A "New And Surprising" Climate Crisis Hazard

It's the second time in less than a year that West Coast fires have had a visibly graying effect on our skyline.

gothamist.com

 

[not-bono-ever]

christ, it looks like beiijing on a bad day

 

[petee]

damn

Tens of thousands of dead mussels lay along the coastline in Vancouver, British Columbia, boiled alive by the extreme heat wave that swept across the Pacific Northwest late last month.

Climate Disaster Looks Like Thousands of Boiled-Alive Mussels on a Beach in Vancouver

More than a billion marine animals died in the heatwave that swept across the Western U.S. and Canada last month. The climate crisis doesn’t exist in some hypothetical future — it’s already here.

www.eater.com

 

[smmudge]

Find the right thread for your comments...this one is about weather.

Up to the last page it was about the saturation of US news in the UK media. So cyberpink 's comments were more on topic than this wild derail.

 

[cyberpink]

Up to the last page it was about the saturation of US news in the UK media. So cyberpink 's comments were more on topic than this wild derail.

I have no idea what the fuk is going on at all, so I'm glad anything I typed is relevant
In an ideal world 5 years from now all the trumpy tosspots will be dead from covid. Piers Morgan will hitch a ride on a Besos spaceship shaped like a penis and die upon re-entry.

 

[Yossarian]

How Greenville, California used to look:



The scene last night:

'We lost Greenville': Dixie Fire wipes out much of Northern California community | CNN

The Golden State's largest active wildfire has wiped out much of the Greenville community in Northern California, sweeping through Wednesday at alarming speed and endangering anyone who did not heed evacuation orders, officials said.

www.cnn.com

 

[Nylock]

Wouldn't surprise me if some trumpist pastor spots the cycle lane in the picture and delacres the destruction of the town as divine retribution for going against God and trucks and stuff.

 

[Flavour]

How many more rich California towns must burn before the US enacts decisive, radical, immediate action on the climate? Many. Too many.

 

[teqniq]

Video of the town here. It's completely gone.

California: Gold Rush town Greenville 'lost' destroyed as Californian wildfire continues to rage

The Dixie Fire is now the eighth largest in California's history and it has been raging for three weeks.

news.sky.com

 

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The Floods In Tennessee Aren't Freak Accidents. They're A New Reality
NPR. August 23, 2021

The rain fell fast and hard in Middle Tennessee over the weekend, harder than it has ever fallen before. Up to 17 inches of rain inundated parts of the state in less than 24 hours on Saturday. Streets turned into rivers. Water barreled through homes. At least 21 people died, and more are still missing.

It was another deadly example of climate change after a summer of climate-driven calamities. Flash flooding — when water rises very quickly and flows with enormous speed and power — is getting more common in many places as Earth heats up.

The deadly floods over the weekend were the second major flooding event in Tennessee this year. Torrential rain flooded parts of Nashville in March and killed at least four people.

 

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17 inches in less than 24 hours

 

[Yossarian]

Not looking good for New Orleans - Tropical Storm Ida is forecast to hit as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and people in some areas are being ordered to evacuate. And this is happening during a massive COVID surge in one of the states with the lowest vaccination rate.