Climate Impact Report – 7/25

July 25, 2024

Key Facts Of The Day 7/25

As of Wednesday evening, Bud was a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean with sustained wind speeds of 40 MPH.
- Bud is the second named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific in 2024.
California’s latest heat wave has drawn tropical moisture into the region, causing severe thunderstorms in some inland areas that forecasters warn could continue to cause flash flooding and dangerous lightning.
Tropical moisture flowing into the southeastern U.S. will continue into this weekend, with the areas from coastal Texas to Louisiana and the Carolinas likely to be the hardest hit and most prone to flash flooding.

As of Thursday, 89 large active wildfires have burned 1,253,640 acres across AK, AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, UT, WA, and WY. This year to date, 26,825 wildfires have burned 3,633,567 acres across the country.
In Arizona, 11 fires have burned 34,779 acres as of Thursday.
In California, 15 fires have burned 104,175 acres as of Thursday.
In Nevada, 1 fire has burned 2,873 acres as of Thursday.
In New Mexico, 2 fires have burned 5,094 acres as of Thursday.
In Oregon, 34 fires have burned 899,399 acres as of Thursday.
In Washington, 9 fires have burned 114,714 acres as of Thursday.
On Wednesday, wildfires burning in the western United States and western Canada triggered air quality warnings across both countries.

This June was the Las Vegas, Nevada’s, hottest on record. In July, Las Vegas experienced a record seven days at 115 degrees Fahrenheit or higher and set a new all-time high of 120 degrees.
A heat wave in Bakersfield, California, continued to strain PG&E’s electrical grid, including three major outages in three days.
On Saturday, a 42-year-old Belgian tourist was hospitalized after suffering third-degree burns on his feet while walking in sand dunes in California’s portion of Death Valley National Park as temperatures soared above 120 degrees.