by By Patrick Wingrove
New York (Reuters) of millions of people in large cities in the northeast of the United States are exposed to high temperatures on Tuesday, at which the worst day of a oppressive heat wave has been expected that has spread over a large part of the country since the end of last week.
The temperatures in Washington and Boston are expected to climb to 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) and defeat the previous records by up to 6 degrees according to the National Weather service.
In Central Park in New York City, the temperatures can reach 99 f (37 ° C), which exceeds the past high of 96 in the region. In other parts of the eastern USA, including North Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, there is also the possibility.
“It looks like today is probably the worst day for widespread heat recordings,” said Bob Oravec, a senior forecast at the National Weather Service in College Park in Maryland and added that the most intense warmth in the northeast is concentrated.
The extreme heat leads to disorders of public transport in the northeast, and the US passenger railway Amtrak says that on Tuesday it will be forced between Washington and New York as well as between Philadelphia and Harrisburg to slow down the train speed between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Some tourist attractions are even affected. According to the National Park Service, the Washington Monument will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday because of the heat.
Construction companies were forced to compensate for the storm to ensure that their construction workers are safe. Jeff Wagner, communication manager of the construction company Fluor, said that the company is making cooling stations and high-performance water bottles available to its more than 2,000 workers who worked on a pharmaceutical project in Indiana.
“We have security meetings every morning, but we know that this would be an exceptionally hot week (we talked about the fluid intake) and make sure that the workers go up and down themselves,” said Wagner.
He added that the workers would start their layers an hour earlier so that they could finish before the hottest part of the day.
In New York City, the residents who want to give their votes in the basic elections were forced to endure the increasing temperatures. The 53 -year -old accountant Alex Antzoulatis, who appeared on Tuesday at an electoral site in Astoria, New York, to give up his ballot paper in the mayor primary school, said Reuters that he regretted not to vote by post.
He said he went to the electoral area in the 100-F heat just because he sees as his duty, “but the heat will keep many people away”.
The warm weather in the US levels and in Canada also affected the plants. In Saskatchewan in Westkanada, where a large part of the country’s rapeseed, spring wheat and pulse plants are grown, drought in June hindered the plants that are only set.
The rainfall in the past few days was late, said Yorkton, Bill Prybylski, farmer Saskatchewan, and added that the damage was partially reduced by the smoky air of forest fires that stopped the direct -sunlight.
Oravec at the NWS said that the temperatures should fall on Wednesday. “How the temperature on Thursday in New York is predicted that it is 84 Fahrenheit and should be 75 f on Friday.”
(Reporting by Patrick Wingrove; additional reporting by Maria Tsvetkova in New York, Ed White in Winnipeg and Heather Schlitz in Chicago; Editor of Sandra Maler)
