Written by Steve Gorman
(Reuters) – large areas of central and southern Texas gathered for the second day under the heat wave in the spring in the spring on Thursday, as the predictors warned the residents of the region to remain moist and reduce arduous external activities.
The National Weather Service has published the heat consulting in 15 Texas provinces that extend from Rio Grande and Texas Hill Control to the Gulf of Mexico, where the temperatures climbed 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit (8 to 11 ° C) above the normal rate to the maximum nineties of the last century (Furnheit up).
It was expected that you would see an area in the center of Texas San Antonio and the capital of the state of Austin the values of thermal indicator – a measure of how warm it is with air temperatures and relative humidity – which reaches 109 degrees Fahrenheit (42.7 ° C).
The heat index was expected to reach 110 Fahrenheit in the border town of Larado in Rio Grande and to exit at 112 Fahrenheit (44.4 ° C) in the axis of the oil field in Alice, from the inside of Corpus Christie.
Houston was expected to feel approximately pleasure compared to the maximum heat index expected at 101 Fahrenheit.
The peak air temperature with an area of 100 degrees was registered on Wednesday at Austin Bergstrom Airport, the highest level ever on that date, and the prophets said on Thursday, 96 degrees Fahrenheit in 2003, is expected to be destroyed as well.
The weather service said that more heat and humidity was in the store during the weekend until early next week, with the conditions similar to the sauna on Friday.
Although no single event in the short weather can be attributed to the phenomenon of global warming, scientists generally agree that rings of high temperatures unreasonably have become more frequent and clear and clear as a result of climate change.
To prevent heat or stroke from exhausting or stroke, the residents have been urged to avoid excessive outdoor procedure, operate them in the open air inside, drink a lot of fluids and wear lightweight clothes.
Texas’s busy weather was part of a larger dome of the over the average heat building on large extensions from the United States from the central and southern plains to the Atlantic Coast to Florida, according to the predictors.
(Participated in the reports of Steve Gourman in Los Angeles; edited by Sandra Maller)
