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Ruthless Heat Wave Baking U.S. Northwest Triggers First Blackout<blockquote>无情热浪烘烤美国西北部引发首次停电</blockquote>

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The blackouts, which were affecting about 9,300 customers late Monday, are expected to last into Tuesday. Across all of Washington and Oregon, more than 30,000 customers were in the dark, according to PowerOutage.US, which compiles utility outage data.<blockquote>为西北部近34万个家庭和企业供电的Avista Corp.在部分系统过载后首次实行轮流停电。周一晚间影响约9,300名客户的停电预计将持续到周二。根据汇编公用事业停电数据的PowerOutage.US的数据，在整个华盛顿州和俄勒冈州，超过30,000名客户处于黑暗之中。</blockquote> While Avista was the first major utility to report rolling blackouts, it may not be the last. Prolonged heat waves such as the one bearing down on the Northwest this week threaten to blow transformers, strain power lines and break down other equipment over time. During a 10-day heat wave across California in 2006, utilities lost more than 1,500 transformers, each knocking out one neighborhood in the process. There were signs of other systems under strain, too: Portland’s streetcar system was suspended. Seattle’s Sound Transit system said trains may operate at reduced speeds.<blockquote>虽然Avista是第一家报告轮流停电的主要公用事业公司，但它可能不是最后一家。随着时间的推移，像本周袭击西北地区的热浪可能会炸毁变压器、拉伤电线并损坏其他设备。在2006年席卷加州的10天热浪中，公用事业公司损失了1500多台变压器，每台变压器都摧毁了一个社区。其他系统也有压力的迹象：波特兰的有轨电车系统暂停运行。西雅图的声音运输系统表示，火车可能会以降低的速度运行。</blockquote> Avista has never “experienced this kind of demand on our system and this kind of impact to our system,” Heather Rosentrater, senior vice president of energy delivery at the utility company, said during a press conference Monday. “This is very unprecedented.”<blockquote>该公用事业公司能源输送高级副总裁希瑟·罗森特拉特(Heather Rosentrater)在周一的新闻发布会上表示，Avista从未“经历过对我们系统的这种需求以及对我们系统的这种影响”。“这是非常前所未有的。”</blockquote> The extended heat wave gripping a region usually defined by cool weather and rain has become one of the most powerful examples yet of how climate change is driving temperatures to records around the world, even in the most unexpected of places. Moscow last week was its hottest since 1901. The United Arab Emirates recently hit 125 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees Celsius).<blockquote>持续的热浪席卷了一个通常以凉爽天气和降雨为特征的地区，已经成为气候变化如何推动世界各地气温达到创纪录水平的最有力的例子之一，即使是在最意想不到的地方。莫斯科上周是自1901年以来最热的一周。阿拉伯联合酋长国最近达到了125华氏度（52摄氏度）。</blockquote> In the Pacific Northwest, warmth is building under a so-called heat dome. That’s what happens when there are kinks in a jet stream of fast-flowing air currents that pin summer weather in place, leading to heat waves and drought, plus storms and flooding elsewhere -- all underscoring the risks authorities expect to intensify throughout the season.<blockquote>在太平洋西北部，温暖正在所谓的热穹顶下积聚。当快速流动的气流出现扭结时，就会发生这种情况，将夏季天气固定在适当的位置，导致热浪和干旱，以及其他地方的风暴和洪水——所有这些都凸显了当局预计整个季节将加剧的风险。</blockquote> Portland hit a record of 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius) Monday, as locations across the region notched new all-time highs. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport touched 108 degrees, while in Canada, Lytton in British Columbia set a new national record a day after shattering a previous high that had stood since 1937.<blockquote>波特兰周一创下115华氏度（46摄氏度）的纪录，该地区各地都创下了历史新高。西雅图-塔科马国际机场的气温达到了108度，而在加拿大，不列颠哥伦比亚省的利顿在打破了自1937年以来的最高气温一天后创造了新的全国纪录。</blockquote> It is unheard of to have temperature records in Portland and Seattle repeatedly broken on successive days, said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. “That just doesn’t occur.”<blockquote>马里兰州大学公园美国天气预报中心的高级预报员鲍勃·奥拉维克说，波特兰和西雅图的气温记录连续几天被打破是闻所未闻的。“那是不会发生的。”</blockquote> Alison Eisinger, director of the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, said aid groups are giving out frozen water bottles, setting up misting stations and trying to help homeless people find ways to avoid the sun as heat hits them especially hard.<blockquote>西雅图/金县无家可归者联盟主任艾莉森·艾辛格说，援助组织正在分发冷冻水瓶，建立喷雾站，并试图帮助无家可归者找到避开阳光的方法，因为高温对他们的打击特别大。</blockquote> “People who are surviving outside may not have a safe place to be in the shade, to get access to water,” she said. “Dehydration is a huge, huge risk.”<blockquote>“在户外生存的人们可能没有一个安全的地方可以在阴凉处取水，”她说。“脱水是一个非常非常大的风险。”</blockquote> An excessive heat warning is also in effect for Northern California, which is forecast to climb as high as 113 degrees. The state’s power grid operator has warned that it may need to ask for conservation to avoid rolling outages.<blockquote>北加州也发布了高温警告，预计气温将攀升至113度。该州电网运营商警告称，可能需要要求节约，以避免轮流停电。</blockquote> The weather frying the Northwest also poured heavy rain across central states and will bring a heat wave to New York and the Northeast, with the coming days in the 90s. Heat advisories stretch from Bangor, Maine, where humidity will make temperatures feel more like 100 or higher, down to Philadelphia.<blockquote>席卷西北部的天气也给中部各州带来了大雨，并将给纽约和东北部带来热浪，未来几天气温将达到90度。高温警告从缅因州班戈一直延伸到费城，那里的湿度会使气温感觉更像100度或更高。</blockquote> The heat has triggered power grid warnings in the East. The operator of the largest U.S. grid, which stretches from Washington to Chicago, asked transmission and generation owners to suspend maintenance Monday across most areas. The neighboring Midcontinent Independent System Operator did the same.<blockquote>高温已引发东部电网预警。从华盛顿延伸到芝加哥的美国最大电网的运营商周一要求大部分地区的输电和发电业主暂停维护。邻近的中大陆独立系统运营商也做了同样的事情。</blockquote> Power and gas prices climbed across the U.S. on Monday. Electricity prices at a Pacific Northwest hub for delivery over the weekend and Monday jumped 435% to $334.22 a megawatt-hour, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Some Southern California prices doubled from a day before. Even spot power prices in New England, Ohio and Pennsylvania jumped Monday afternoon.<blockquote>周一，美国各地的电力和天然气价格攀升。彭博社汇编的数据显示，太平洋西北枢纽周末和周一的电价上涨了435%，至每兆瓦时334.22美元。一些南加州的价格比前一天翻了一番。周一下午，新英格兰、俄亥俄州和宾夕法尼亚州的现货电价也大幅上涨。</blockquote> Meanwhile, U.S. natural gas futures rose for a sixth day as the heat wave in the Northwest raises power demand and depletes inventories.<blockquote>与此同时，美国天然气期货连续第六天上涨，因西北地区的热浪推高了电力需求并耗尽了库存。</blockquote> Flood warnings cover parts of eastern New Mexico and west Texas, as well as Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan as cooler air and rain soak those regions.<blockquote>洪水警报覆盖了新墨西哥州东部和德克萨斯州西部的部分地区，以及密苏里州、伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州和密歇根州，因为冷空气和雨水浸泡了这些地区。</blockquote> Overnight lows in Oregon and Washington are meanwhile topping highs elsewhere. Temperatures will only fall to 81 degrees in Yakima, Washington. Meanwhile, Houston was forecast to peak at 79, according to the weather service.<blockquote>与此同时，俄勒冈州和华盛顿州的隔夜低点超过了其他地方的高点。华盛顿州亚基马的气温只会降至81度。与此同时，据气象局称，休斯顿的最高气温预计为79度。</blockquote>","source":"lsy1612507957220","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ruthless Heat Wave Baking U.S. Northwest Triggers First Blackout<blockquote>无情热浪烘烤美国西北部引发首次停电</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nRuthless Heat Wave Baking U.S. Northwest Triggers First Blackout<blockquote>无情热浪烘烤美国西北部引发首次停电</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\nBloomberg2021-06-29 13:19\n\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n(Bloomberg) -- The unrelenting heat wave that shattered temperature records across the U.S. Pacific Northwest on Monday and threatens to smother the region for another six straight days has begun to trigger rolling blackouts in some parts.<blockquote>（彭博社）-周一，持续的热浪打破了美国太平洋西北部的气温记录，并有可能连续六天使该地区窒息，已经开始在一些地区引发轮流停电。</blockquote> For the first time in the company’s history, Avista Corp. -- which supplies electricity to nearly 340,000 homes and businesses in the Northwest -- instituted rotating outages after parts of its system overloaded. The blackouts, which were affecting about 9,300 customers late Monday, are expected to last into Tuesday. Across all of Washington and Oregon, more than 30,000 customers were in the dark, according to PowerOutage.US, which compiles utility outage data.<blockquote>为西北部近34万个家庭和企业供电的Avista Corp.在部分系统过载后首次实行轮流停电。周一晚间影响约9,300名客户的停电预计将持续到周二。根据汇编公用事业停电数据的PowerOutage.US的数据，在整个华盛顿州和俄勒冈州，超过30,000名客户处于黑暗之中。</blockquote> While Avista was the first major utility to report rolling blackouts, it may not be the last. Prolonged heat waves such as the one bearing down on the Northwest this week threaten to blow transformers, strain power lines and break down other equipment over time. During a 10-day heat wave across California in 2006, utilities lost more than 1,500 transformers, each knocking out one neighborhood in the process. There were signs of other systems under strain, too: Portland’s streetcar system was suspended. Seattle’s Sound Transit system said trains may operate at reduced speeds.<blockquote>虽然Avista是第一家报告轮流停电的主要公用事业公司，但它可能不是最后一家。随着时间的推移，像本周袭击西北地区的热浪可能会炸毁变压器、拉伤电线并损坏其他设备。在2006年席卷加州的10天热浪中，公用事业公司损失了1500多台变压器，每台变压器都摧毁了一个社区。其他系统也有压力的迹象：波特兰的有轨电车系统暂停运行。西雅图的声音运输系统表示，火车可能会以降低的速度运行。</blockquote> Avista has never “experienced this kind of demand on our system and this kind of impact to our system,” Heather Rosentrater, senior vice president of energy delivery at the utility company, said during a press conference Monday. “This is very unprecedented.”<blockquote>该公用事业公司能源输送高级副总裁希瑟·罗森特拉特(Heather Rosentrater)在周一的新闻发布会上表示，Avista从未“经历过对我们系统的这种需求以及对我们系统的这种影响”。“这是非常前所未有的。”</blockquote> The extended heat wave gripping a region usually defined by cool weather and rain has become one of the most powerful examples yet of how climate change is driving temperatures to records around the world, even in the most unexpected of places. Moscow last week was its hottest since 1901. The United Arab Emirates recently hit 125 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees Celsius).<blockquote>持续的热浪席卷了一个通常以凉爽天气和降雨为特征的地区，已经成为气候变化如何推动世界各地气温达到创纪录水平的最有力的例子之一，即使是在最意想不到的地方。莫斯科上周是自1901年以来最热的一周。阿拉伯联合酋长国最近达到了125华氏度（52摄氏度）。</blockquote> In the Pacific Northwest, warmth is building under a so-called heat dome. That’s what happens when there are kinks in a jet stream of fast-flowing air currents that pin summer weather in place, leading to heat waves and drought, plus storms and flooding elsewhere -- all underscoring the risks authorities expect to intensify throughout the season.<blockquote>在太平洋西北部，温暖正在所谓的热穹顶下积聚。当快速流动的气流出现扭结时，就会发生这种情况，将夏季天气固定在适当的位置，导致热浪和干旱，以及其他地方的风暴和洪水——所有这些都凸显了当局预计整个季节将加剧的风险。</blockquote> Portland hit a record of 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius) Monday, as locations across the region notched new all-time highs. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport touched 108 degrees, while in Canada, Lytton in British Columbia set a new national record a day after shattering a previous high that had stood since 1937.<blockquote>波特兰周一创下115华氏度（46摄氏度）的纪录，该地区各地都创下了历史新高。西雅图-塔科马国际机场的气温达到了108度，而在加拿大，不列颠哥伦比亚省的利顿在打破了自1937年以来的最高气温一天后创造了新的全国纪录。</blockquote> It is unheard of to have temperature records in Portland and Seattle repeatedly broken on successive days, said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. “That just doesn’t occur.”<blockquote>马里兰州大学公园美国天气预报中心的高级预报员鲍勃·奥拉维克说，波特兰和西雅图的气温记录连续几天被打破是闻所未闻的。“那是不会发生的。”</blockquote> Alison Eisinger, director of the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, said aid groups are giving out frozen water bottles, setting up misting stations and trying to help homeless people find ways to avoid the sun as heat hits them especially hard.<blockquote>西雅图/金县无家可归者联盟主任艾莉森·艾辛格说，援助组织正在分发冷冻水瓶，建立喷雾站，并试图帮助无家可归者找到避开阳光的方法，因为高温对他们的打击特别大。</blockquote> “People who are surviving outside may not have a safe place to be in the shade, to get access to water,” she said. “Dehydration is a huge, huge risk.”<blockquote>“在户外生存的人们可能没有一个安全的地方可以在阴凉处取水，”她说。“脱水是一个非常非常大的风险。”</blockquote> An excessive heat warning is also in effect for Northern California, which is forecast to climb as high as 113 degrees. The state’s power grid operator has warned that it may need to ask for conservation to avoid rolling outages.<blockquote>北加州也发布了高温警告，预计气温将攀升至113度。该州电网运营商警告称，可能需要要求节约，以避免轮流停电。</blockquote> The weather frying the Northwest also poured heavy rain across central states and will bring a heat wave to New York and the Northeast, with the coming days in the 90s. Heat advisories stretch from Bangor, Maine, where humidity will make temperatures feel more like 100 or higher, down to Philadelphia.<blockquote>席卷西北部的天气也给中部各州带来了大雨，并将给纽约和东北部带来热浪，未来几天气温将达到90度。高温警告从缅因州班戈一直延伸到费城，那里的湿度会使气温感觉更像100度或更高。</blockquote> The heat has triggered power grid warnings in the East. The operator of the largest U.S. grid, which stretches from Washington to Chicago, asked transmission and generation owners to suspend maintenance Monday across most areas. The neighboring Midcontinent Independent System Operator did the same.<blockquote>高温已引发东部电网预警。从华盛顿延伸到芝加哥的美国最大电网的运营商周一要求大部分地区的输电和发电业主暂停维护。邻近的中大陆独立系统运营商也做了同样的事情。</blockquote> Power and gas prices climbed across the U.S. on Monday. Electricity prices at a Pacific Northwest hub for delivery over the weekend and Monday jumped 435% to $334.22 a megawatt-hour, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Some Southern California prices doubled from a day before. Even spot power prices in New England, Ohio and Pennsylvania jumped Monday afternoon.<blockquote>周一，美国各地的电力和天然气价格攀升。彭博社汇编的数据显示，太平洋西北枢纽周末和周一的电价上涨了435%，至每兆瓦时334.22美元。一些南加州的价格比前一天翻了一番。周一下午，新英格兰、俄亥俄州和宾夕法尼亚州的现货电价也大幅上涨。</blockquote> Meanwhile, U.S. natural gas futures rose for a sixth day as the heat wave in the Northwest raises power demand and depletes inventories.<blockquote>与此同时，美国天然气期货连续第六天上涨，因西北地区的热浪推高了电力需求并耗尽了库存。</blockquote> Flood warnings cover parts of eastern New Mexico and west Texas, as well as Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan as cooler air and rain soak those regions.<blockquote>洪水警报覆盖了新墨西哥州东部和德克萨斯州西部的部分地区，以及密苏里州、伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州和密歇根州，因为冷空气和雨水浸泡了这些地区。</blockquote> Overnight lows in Oregon and Washington are meanwhile topping highs elsewhere. Temperatures will only fall to 81 degrees in Yakima, Washington. Meanwhile, Houston was forecast to peak at 79, according to the weather service.<blockquote>与此同时，俄勒冈州和华盛顿州的隔夜低点超过了其他地方的高点。华盛顿州亚基马的气温只会降至81度。与此同时，据气象局称，休斯顿的最高气温预计为79度。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heat-wave-builds-across-u-163836387.html\">Bloomberg</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heat-wave-builds-across-u-163836387.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1106476292","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- The unrelenting heat wave that shattered temperature records across the U.S. Pacific Northwest on Monday and threatens to smother the region for another six straight days has begun to trigger rolling blackouts in some parts.\nFor the first time in the company’s history, Avista Corp. -- which supplies electricity to nearly 340,000 homes and businesses in the Northwest -- instituted rotating outages after parts of its system overloaded. The blackouts, which were affecting about 9,300 customers late Monday, are expected to last into Tuesday. Across all of Washington and Oregon, more than 30,000 customers were in the dark, according to PowerOutage.US, which compiles utility outage data.\nWhile Avista was the first major utility to report rolling blackouts, it may not be the last. Prolonged heat waves such as the one bearing down on the Northwest this week threaten to blow transformers, strain power lines and break down other equipment over time. During a 10-day heat wave across California in 2006, utilities lost more than 1,500 transformers, each knocking out one neighborhood in the process. There were signs of other systems under strain, too: Portland’s streetcar system was suspended. Seattle’s Sound Transit system said trains may operate at reduced speeds.\nAvista has never “experienced this kind of demand on our system and this kind of impact to our system,” Heather Rosentrater, senior vice president of energy delivery at the utility company, said during a press conference Monday. “This is very unprecedented.”\nThe extended heat wave gripping a region usually defined by cool weather and rain has become one of the most powerful examples yet of how climate change is driving temperatures to records around the world, even in the most unexpected of places. Moscow last week was its hottest since 1901. The United Arab Emirates recently hit 125 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees Celsius).\nIn the Pacific Northwest, warmth is building under a so-called heat dome. That’s what happens when there are kinks in a jet stream of fast-flowing air currents that pin summer weather in place, leading to heat waves and drought, plus storms and flooding elsewhere -- all underscoring the risks authorities expect to intensify throughout the season.\nPortland hit a record of 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius) Monday, as locations across the region notched new all-time highs. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport touched 108 degrees, while in Canada, Lytton in British Columbia set a new national record a day after shattering a previous high that had stood since 1937.\nIt is unheard of to have temperature records in Portland and Seattle repeatedly broken on successive days, said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. “That just doesn’t occur.”\nAlison Eisinger, director of the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, said aid groups are giving out frozen water bottles, setting up misting stations and trying to help homeless people find ways to avoid the sun as heat hits them especially hard.\n“People who are surviving outside may not have a safe place to be in the shade, to get access to water,” she said. “Dehydration is a huge, huge risk.”\nAn excessive heat warning is also in effect for Northern California, which is forecast to climb as high as 113 degrees. The state’s power grid operator has warned that it may need to ask for conservation to avoid rolling outages.\nThe weather frying the Northwest also poured heavy rain across central states and will bring a heat wave to New York and the Northeast, with the coming days in the 90s. Heat advisories stretch from Bangor, Maine, where humidity will make temperatures feel more like 100 or higher, down to Philadelphia.\nThe heat has triggered power grid warnings in the East. The operator of the largest U.S. grid, which stretches from Washington to Chicago, asked transmission and generation owners to suspend maintenance Monday across most areas. The neighboring Midcontinent Independent System Operator did the same.\nPower and gas prices climbed across the U.S. on Monday. Electricity prices at a Pacific Northwest hub for delivery over the weekend and Monday jumped 435% to $334.22 a megawatt-hour, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Some Southern California prices doubled from a day before. Even spot power prices in New England, Ohio and Pennsylvania jumped Monday afternoon.\nMeanwhile, U.S. natural gas futures rose for a sixth day as the heat wave in the Northwest raises power demand and depletes inventories.\nFlood warnings cover parts of eastern New Mexico and west Texas, as well as Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan as cooler air and rain soak those regions.\nOvernight lows in Oregon and Washington are meanwhile topping highs elsewhere. Temperatures will only fall to 81 degrees in Yakima, Washington. Meanwhile, Houston was forecast to peak at 79, according to the weather service.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":2504,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":9,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"hasMoreComment":false,"orderType":2}