New research takes a first-of-its-kind look at power outages driven by extreme weather.
In order to get a better understanding of how power outages in the U.S. manifest for specificfrom PowerOutages.us. That website
pulls information from utility websites on customers without power. Of the 3,142 counties in the U.S., they were able to obtain data forIn analyzing the data, the researchers found that aof Americans are going through long stretches without power. During that two-year period, more than 70% of the counties surveyed experienced a power outage that lasted more than eight
hours at least once. Those lengthy outages tended to happen more often in the late spring and mid-summer, and tended to peak when people were at home and using their electricity the most, in the late afternoon and early evening. They also had a geographic trend: clusters of regions in the South , the Northeast ,Advertisementwas being affected by outages in these regions.
Then there’s the climate aspect. The researchers took the data on those super-long outages and overlaid it with information on climate-related weather disasters in each county during the same time period, including storms, heavy winds, and heatmore common. Tropical cyclones—a storm categorized by high winds and intense precipitation—made long outages almost 14 times more common.
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