---
title: "Another Heatwave Is Coming for the West Coast"
description: "Less than a week after a record-breaking heatwave that pummelled the Pacific Northwest, rising temperatures are now set to hit the West Coast this weekend."
date: "2021-07-10"
modified: "2021-07-10"
authors:
  - name: "Tony Ho Tran"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ttran"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/another-heatwave-west-coast"
categories:
  - "Climate Change"
  - "Environment"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "climate change"
  - "heatwave"
  - "the digest"
  - "west coast"
---

# Another Heatwave Is Coming for the West Coast

![Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/earthonfire.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Futurism\</em\>*

## The West Coast Re-Heated

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a sweltering heatwave is set to hit the West Coast.

Less than a week after a[ record-breaking heatwave that pummelled the Pacific Northwest](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/horrific-heatwave-kills-dozens>), rising temperatures are now set to hit the West Coast this weekend — with California and Nevada bearing the brunt of it, [according to *Gizmodo*](<https://gizmodo.com/a-new-dangerous-heat-wave-is-coming-for-the-west-yes-1847259077>)*.* On Friday, the National Weather Service (NWS) even issued heat warnings for Northern and Central California.

"This is a multi-day excessive heat event," the NWS alert said.

## Potential Record-Breaking Heat

*Gizmodo* also reported that Death Valley in California might see temperatures hit a brain-melting 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius). If that happens, it would tie the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth… which coincidentally, also occurred in Death Valley.

Cities such as Las Vegas, Nevada are expected to surpass their all-time record high temperatures.

## #HotWeatherSummer

So far 2021 has been a summer of climate crisis for the US.

Not only has the country seen a series of deadly heatwaves that [have killed hundreds of people](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/heat-wave-hundreds-deaths>) and might have [decimated more than a billion sea creatures](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/heatwaves-killed-sea-creatures>), the East Coast is dealing with[ torrential downpours, flash floods, and a tropical storm](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/aoc-subway-flooding-politicians-fossil-fuel>) that threatens to exacerbate it all even more.

If one thing is clear, it’s this: Climate change is here, and it’s having a direct, outsized impact on our day-to-day lives in profound — and often deadly — ways.

**READ MORE:** [A New Dangerous Heat Wave Is Coming for the West (Yes, Another One)](<https://gizmodo.com/a-new-dangerous-heat-wave-is-coming-for-the-west-yes-1847259077>) \[*Gizmodo*\]

**More on climate change:** [*AOC Blames Subway Flooding on Politicians Taking “Orders from Fossil Fuel Execs”*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/aoc-subway-flooding-politicians-fossil-fuel>)

## Author
Tony Tran is a former reporter for Futurism, and now an editor at the Daily Beast. His work has been seen in Playboy, HuffPost, Narratively, and wherever else fine writing is published. He lives in Chicago where he frequently plans tabletop gaming sessions for his friends.