THE READ — what this desk must decide today
cooling load in one hemisphere, heating load booked for Wednesday in the other
Two opposite loads, forty-eight hours apart. The American mid-South holds a 105–110 °F index across nine states, which is cooling demand on a grid whose severe risk stepped down to a Marginal — load without much outage pressure, for one more day. In the Southern Hemisphere the opposite is booked: Argentina's fresh Antarctic front peaks Wednesday with sectors to −10 °C and Chubut gusts above 85 km/h, and New Zealand's snow lands the same day above 600 m — heating demand and line-exposure arriving together on a single midweek date. In Vietnam, flooding across the delta is a distribution-interruption problem before it is a generation one.
THE RECORD past — how exposed this desk has run
carried on 38 of the last 61 editions — since Jul 5, the 10 most recent shown.
Sep 15THE MID-SOUTH HEAT REGIME HELD: 0 … · THE FLOOD TOLD TO TAPER TODAY EXPA… · THE EXTREME-COLD ALERT CLEARED ENT…
Sep 13THE ACUTE TIER HELD AT ZERO A SECO… · A MARGINAL DAY FOR DAMAGING WIND A… · THE POLAR PHASE TOOK OVER: YELLOW …
Sep 12THE ACUTE TIER READ ZERO · RED-FLAG WARNINGS ROSE 6 TO 10 AS … · THE WATER IS CERTAIN AND THE CAUSE…
Sep 11THE ACUTE-HEAT TIER COLLAPSED A SE… · A FINAL ADVISORY · A RED WARNING THAT WALKED SOUTH ON…
Sep 8A CATEGORY-2 LOWELL AT CLOSEST APP… · THE ACUTE-HEAT MAP RE-LIT: WARNING… · 28.0 CM
Aug 28KAUB STOPPED FALLING AT 60 CM · A SECOND ESTOFEX LEVEL 3 · RED FLAG FLIPPED OUT OF THE PACIFI…
Aug 27KAUB DOWN AGAIN TO 60 CM · AN ESTOFEX LEVEL 3 FOR TONIGHT · RED FLAG UP 4 TO 5 AND MOVED NORTH
Aug 25THE FIRST TOP-TIER HEAT-WAVE EMERG… · 25 EXTREME HEAT WARNINGS · KAUB UP AGAIN TO 74 CM AND STILL B…
Aug 24THE FIRST TOP-TIER HEAT-WAVE EMERG… · STILL 110 KT · KAUB SURGED 27 CM IN A DAY TO 70 CM
Aug 2314 EXTREME HEAT WARNINGS · KAUB RISES AGAIN TO 43 CM · A LEVEL-IV FLOOD EMERGENCY ACTIVAT…