Quiet Start To September For Most – National Weather Outlook For September 1, 2022

National Weather Forecast

High pressure dominates across a good portion of the lower 48 as we head through Thursday. The best rain chances will be in the South Central and Southeastern regions, where a frontal boundary and a couple of areas of low pressure will be located.

That frontal boundary in the southern United States will be the focus for the heaviest rain through Friday, with the potential of over 3” in some locations. In parts of Texas, this could lead to flooding. Most of the rest of the nation will be dry from late Wednesday into Friday due to that area of high pressure.

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A New Way to Measure Heat Risks for People

More from Scientific American: “For all the images of ski resorts and snow-capped peaks, Colorado is experiencing shorter winters and hotter summers that are increasingly putting people at risk for heat-related illnesses. Yet until this year, the National Weather Service hadn’t issued a heat advisory for the Denver metropolitan area in 13 years. That’s because the heat index commonly used by the weather service to gauge the health risks of hot weather relies on temperature and humidity. Colorado’s climate is so dry that reaching the thresholds for that kind of heat advisory is nearly impossible. But this year, the National Weather Service in Colorado adopted a prototype heat warning index, known as HeatRisk, that is used in California and other parts of the Western U.S. and relies on local climate data to determine how much hotter than normal the temperature will be and what the hazards could be to people.”

A New Mexico Town Is About to Run Out of Drinking Water

More from Gizmodo: “A town in New Mexico is facing a triple punch of climate impacts from wildfire, drought, and intense rainfall. The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico is set to run out of drinking water in September, thanks to pollution and debris from the largest wildfire in state history. Some residents at the fringes of Las Vegas, a city some 65 miles (105 kilometers) to the west of Santa Fe, were forced to evacuate in May as the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire raged close by. The city gets its water primarily from a reservoir that feeds off the nearby Gallinas River. The river has now been contaminated by runoff from flooding on the burn scar of the fire, after intense rains in late July fell on the same region burned by the fire just a few months before.”

First Solar announces new U.S. panel factory following the Inflation Reduction Act

More from CNBC: “First Solar announced Tuesday that it will build a new solar panel manufacturing facility in the U.S. on the heels of the Inflation Reduction Act, which incentivizes domestic manufacturing. The company will invest up to $1 billion in the new factory, which it plans to build in the Southeast of the U.S. The newly announced plant will be the panel maker’s fourth fully integrated U.S. factory. First Solar also said Tuesday that it will spend $185 million upgrading and expanding its existing facilities in Ohio.”

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