West dealing with one other day of 100-degree warmth and threats of rolling blackouts

Thousands and thousands of individuals throughout the western United States face one other punishing afternoon of brutal triple-digit temperatures, as energy firms pleaded with their overheated prospects to be even handed with electrical energy use Wednesday.

The excessive temperature is anticipated to achieve 109 levels in Sacramento, California, 99 in Los Angeles, 103 in Salt Lake Metropolis, 100 in Grand Junction, Colorado, and 108 in Las Vegas in a warmth wave that is anticipated to final the remainder of the week.

Amazingly, Wednesday’s scorcher in California’s capital represents a small dose of aid — from Tuesday’s all-time excessive of 116 levels. Earlier than this yr, Sacramento had by no means recorded a September temperature at or above 110 levels and now town has hit that sweltering mark two days out of three.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District thanked its “unbelievable prospects” for conserving vitality Tuesday.

“Along with your assist, we have been in a position to keep away from rotating outages,” the utility stated in a press release late Tuesday evening. “We nonetheless have 3 extra days of 100+ diploma climate forward, so please proceed to scale back vitality utilization from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.”

Sacramento is much from alone in its heat-related distress.

• Greater than one million folks in Northern California skilled temperatures of not less than 110 levels Tuesday. Wednesday would be the ninth consecutive day when a portion of the Golden State has been beneath a warmth alert.
• Tuesday’s excessive temperature of 105 in Salt Lake Metropolis marked the most popular September day within the metropolis’s historical past.
• Grand Junction, which sits at 4,600 toes above sea stage close to the Utah border in far western Colorado, recorded 101 levels Tuesday, the most popular September day on report.