Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.

Reno, which sits just across the Nevada line along the Sierra’s eastern front at an elevation of 4,500 feet (1,372 meters), topped the century mark for the ninth day in a row on Wednesday with its seventh consecutive daily record-high - reaching 104 degrees (40 C) after recording its hottest September day ever on Tuesday at 106 degrees (41.1 C), according to weather service records dating to 1893. And so we’ll double down on the communication to make sure that doesn’t happen again.” “There was a lot happening on the grid for everybody last night. “That is certainly concerning to me,” Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of Cal-ISO, said Wednesday. The confusion occurred Tuesday afternoon between a dispatcher at the Northern California Power Agency, which owns and operates power generating facilities for 16 members including a dozen cities, and the California Independent System Operator as the grid it manages was perilously close to running out of energy amid record-breaking temperatures. Targeted blackouts were avoided a day after miscommunication led utilities to mistakenly cut power to customers in several California cities.

“With your help, we made it through another day without rotating #poweroutages,” Cal-ISO said on Twitter after the alert expired at 9 p.m. The California Independent System Operator thanked California residents and businesses for heeding another “flex alert,” a request to reduce electricity consumption during peak evening hours. LOS ANGELES (AP) - California avoided rolling outages during extreme heat Wednesday, as operators of the state’s electricity grid continued to warn that unprecedented demand on energy supplies could force them to periodically cut power to some customers.

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