Storms and weather events have caused record heatwaves, destruction and power outages across the eastern United States. where the rise of the river in Alaska due to the separation of the glacier brought down the houses.
Following an overnight storm that wreaked havoc in the east of the country, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a warning.Heavy rain to continue Tuesday in the northeast and extreme heat in the south and southeast for the rest of the week.
In Alaska, local media showed images a house destroyed in seconds by the flooding of the Mendenhall Riverafter the rupture of the eponymous glacier.
In this state, two houses were completely destroyed in Juno, its capital. In addition, another house is partially damaged and another 15 are marked uninhabitable due to unprecedented flooding in Suicide Basin from the rising Mendenhall River.
Meanwhile, platform PowerOutage.us indicates that there are more than 300,000 homes and businesses were left without power in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia due to hurricanes.
They hit the Washington, DC region, southern Maryland and northern Virginia late Monday evening, with rainfall in the Northwest reaching 76mm.
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Other areas affected by storms
Baltimore City (Maryland) there was a flood in the area of ​​​​Caroline and Aliseanna streets, and in Westminster, there were cars trapped by raging waters and downed power lines.
Several regions of Pennsylvania spent the night under tornado watch, and local officials reported damage to homes and trees in central Philadelphia, as well as Roxborough and Manayunk counties in the metropolitan area, and Upper Hanover in Montgomery County.
While calmer conditions are forecast for the region on Tuesday, Meteorologists are expecting wind gusts up to 30 mph. and as they blow from the west, they will carry some of the smoke from the wildfires in Canada.
The NWS is predicting flash flooding in parts of northern New England.
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There will also be flash flooding with severe storms and thunder through Wednesday in the central plains and the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.
The federal agency also warned that Record heat from Texas to the central Gulf Coast region and Florida.
“Excessive heat watches and warnings remain in effect across much of the southern part of the country, where the heat index is expected to be between 41 and 46 degrees Celsius and possibly higher through at least the middle of the week,” the NWS added. .
Scientists and meteorologists have linked the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including hurricanes, droughts, floods and wildfires, to climate change.