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At Least 41 People Die In Western US Heatwave
Phoenix, Arizona (AFP) Jul 26, 2005 A relentless heatwave has killed at least 41 people in the western United States, including 21 illegal immigrants trying to cross from Mexico, since the start of July, officials said Monday. Border patrol officials Arizona said 21 immigrants trying to cross the US-Mexico border had died, while police in Phoenix said the heat had also claimed the lived of 20 people in that city, most of them homeless. "Summer temperatures in the desert along the border can reach 120 degrees (49 degrees Celsius)," Rob Daniels of US Customs and Border Protection's Tucson office told AFP. "People can't carry the amount of water needed to survive arduous crossings in rugged terrain," he said, adding that 160 people had died trying to cross the sweltering desert border since October 1. In Phoenix, Arizona's largest city, temperatures of up to 46 degrees Celsius (115 Fahrenheit) have killed at 20 people since the start of the month, police confirmed. Aid worker Stephanie Farwig of the Phoenix Rescue Mission, which runs a shelter in Phoenix, said homeless people and transients exposed to the elements in were the worst hit by the relentless heatwave that started in early July. "They don't have the protection from the sun nor the liquids that they need and when the temperature is 115 degrees, the pavement is 130 degrees and people's feet are burned even through their shoes," she told AFP earlier. Perspiration in the soaring temperatures quickly dehydrates the body and many homeless people cannot find taps from which to drink or afford bottled drinks, Farwig said. While each summer claims a few lives of homeless people in the US west, this year has been exceptional, Farwig said. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Weather News at TerraDaily.com
MSG2 Will Advance Long Term Monitoring Of Planetary Energy Balance
London UK (SPX) Dec 23, 2005This week's launch of MSG-2 will ensure that satellite images continue to be available to European weather forecasters well into the next decade. It also marks a new chapter in a long-term space experiment measuring the available energy that drives the weather as a whole, and helping to establish how much the Earth is heating up. |
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