Heat
5:45PM Saturday: Near record-breaking heat this afternoon, cooler Sunday!
Happy Saturday as a windy day today continues across southeast Louisiana. This is comfortable after rain and humidity have been the themes all week. It’s tough to stay inside in these better conditions with clouds and sun. Highs by your afternoon after lunch reached the lower to mid 80s area-wide. Anticipate an overall pleasant, warm …
White heat – Britain’s foreign and defence policy shake-up focuses on technology | Britain
Mar 20th 2021 THE SLOGAN “Global Britain” first gained currency in the months after the country’s vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Theresa May deployed the phrase five times when she addressed the Conservative Party conference for the first time as prime minister. Days later it was the title of Boris Johnson’s first …
Planned outages, frozen pipes, energy conservation
As temperatures plummeted to record-breaking lows Monday, the Omaha Public Power District said it got an emergency order from Southwest Power Pool to implement planned outages. “We have never been in this kind of situation,” OPPD President and CEO Tim Burke said. Southwest Power Pool manages the grid for OPPD, NPPD, LES in Lincoln and …
Review article on organic and inorganic thermoelectric materials for converting heat into electricity for IoT (internet of things) related energy harvesting wins the 2020 STAM Best Paper Award
TSUKUBA, Japan, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Technology for thermoelectric energy harvesting will play a central role in powering millions of sensors and devices for IoT applications especially for wearable electronics. This STAM review paper described the potential of state-of-the-art organic and inorganic thermoelectric materials to convert heat into electricity through the Seebeck effect for …
San Diego sees record-breaking temps during January heat wave
SAN DIEGO — Several areas of San Diego County saw record-breaking temperatures Friday during an unusual January heat wave. The temperature rose to the 90s in Poway Friday afternoon. National Weather Service Meteorologist Miguel Miller said it was unusual for January because the days are still so short. “We have Santa Ana winds. We also …
Santa Ana winds and record-breaking heat raise fire fears
Record-breaking temperatures, gusty Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions have Southern California bracing for a weekend of fire danger. The National Weather Service issued a red-flag warning for a large swath of Southern California, including the mountains and valleys of Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties. The warning, which denotes the potential …
US blacklists Xiaomi, CNOOC, Skyrizon, raising heat on China
An advertisement for Xiaomi at a subway station in Hong Kong, July 9, 2018. AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File HONG KONG (AP) — The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing in President Donald Trump’s last week in office. The …
Two hotel quarantine COVID-19 cases in Queensland; Debate over AstraZeneca vaccine herd immunity effectiveness; Victoria records no new local COVID-19 cases for seventh consecutive day; Trump denounces Capitol violence as he arrives in Texas for border wall visit; Severe fire danger for several states as temperatures heat up
By Olivana Lathouris21:50 Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said he is “concerned” debate over the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine could undermine public trust in the country’s vaccination plan. Mr Kelly said concerns about the ability of the drug to create herd immunity was not justified at this stage of the process, and Australians …
US climate report: Utah shatters dry record, parts of state break climate heat records in 2020
SALT LAKE CITY — 2020 resulted in the driest and one of the hottest years on record, a report issued by federal environmental officials Friday. The annual report of preliminary data, published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Environmental Information, also found that it was the fifth-warmest year ever recorded in United …
Half of San Diego County could break heat records in 2020
Parts of the county are on track to break records. SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — If you thought it was hotter than usual in San Diego County this year, you would be right. It was a year of back-to-back-to-back heat waves in the summer lasting into the fall with record highs across the county. News …
