Another week, another day people in Texas have extensive power outages. 768K customers without power this morning in Texas, due to wind/tornado damage (once again). #TXwx#poweroutages#grid (snapshot of poweroutages.us)
Any opinions on the new Hydro Ottawa outages map? Seems less informative. There are three different views, but none of them have the granularity of the old style.
"Nigerians are facing a double whammy as scorching #heatwave coincides with widespread #PowerOutages that have seen many areas experience total darkness for days on end.
About half of the country is in danger of sunstroke, muscle cramps, and heat exhaustion as air temperatures hit 47°C over the north and 39°C over the south, according to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet)."
Utilities blame "gas constraints" for the outages.
Want to Reduce #PowerOutages? Move Grids Underground, Says Energy Expert
"Everybody was talking about how costly undergrounding was, but no one was talking about what are the benefits that you get—utilities that had a larger share of their power system underground tended to have better reliability than those that had lower percentages of line-miles underground."
SCE still looking at Public Safety Powre Shutoff (PSPS) power outages in Ventura County -- Moorpark/Simi/Newbury Park, the Santa Rosa Valley. #wind#CAwx#PowerOutages
Still a possibility of PSPS (Public Safety Power Shutoffs) for Ventura County -- Camarillo/Moorpark/Simi today, due to wind forecast. #psps#firewx#poweroutages#power#CAwx
Tips forwarded with the PSPS on Preparing for a Power Outage #DisasterPreparedness#wildfires#CAwx#PowerOutages#PSPS (apologies from lack of effective alt text, will go find the text of this... too long and columns, so no auto-text detection)
"At midday, more than 35 million people in southern #Texas, #Louisiana and #Florida were under excessive #heat warnings, watches and advisories extending through the three-day Juneteenth weekend, the National Weather Service said.
The growing frequency and intensity of severe weather across the U.S. is symptomatic of human-driven #ClimateChange, climate scientists say."