reconnecting
Listening for events…

The Dexes / Heat & Excessive Heat / 322871

Eventdex · Heat & Excessive Heat

CARBON

322871

The record

Everything the slot carries, as measured. Series arrays are drawn above and listed here in full.

Event typeevent_typeHeat
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id322,871
Episode IDepisode_id50,485
Begin UTCbegin_utc2011-06-09T14:00:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc2011-06-09T22:00:00+00:00
StatestatePENNSYLVANIA
County/zone typecz_typeZ
County/zone namecz_nameCARBON
Deaths directdeaths_direct0
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect0
Injuries directinjuries_direct0
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect0
Damage propertydamage_property0.00K
Damage cropsdamage_crops0.00K
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_sourceASOS
Episode narrativeepisode_narrativeUnseasonably hot weather occurred on June 8th and 9th across Eastern Pennsylvania. Except for the higher terrain in the Poconos, high temperatures reached the mid to upper 90s both days with afternoon heat indices of between 100F and 105F. The 9th was the hottest day for most places. There was one heat related death within Philadelphia and a few other occurrences of heat exhaustion throughout the area. A cold front that triggered strong to severe thunderstorms during the late afternoon and evening of the 9th moved through Pennsylvania during the early morning of the 10th and lowered both temperature and humidity levels.||An 83-year old man became the first heat related death of the summer in Philadelphia. In the Lehigh Valley, two children at Dorney Park suffered heat exhaustion while a a roofer in the Allentown area suffered heat stroke. The city of Philadelphia activated its heat program. A daytime outreach program was initiated to the elderly and a hot line was opened with counselors and nurses answered questions. Schools in Philadelphia dismissed children early on both the 8th and 9th. Many other schools and school districts that did not have air conditioning followed suit on both days as far north as the Poconos. Many districts also canceled after school classes and activities. Some school districts enacted dress down rules and moved field day and graduation ceremonies indoors. In Philadelphia, a section of the Schuylkill Expressway near Grays Ferry Avenue buckled.||Highest temperatures included 99 degrees in Philadelphia and Lehighton (Carbon County), 98 degrees in Pottstown (Montgomery County) and Reading (Berks County), 96 degrees in Allentown (Lehigh County), 95 degrees in Doylestown and Quakertown (Bucks County), 94 degrees in Stroudsburg (Monroe County).
Yearyear2,011

Provenance

This slot's source list is not carried on the manifest row; open the dossier below.

Storage: spine

CARBON — Heat & Excessive Heat — TerraPulse