John Ryan
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first heard Nov 2024
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The reversal comes after the U.S.
Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to block the Trump administration from dismantling the ocean monitoring system.
The high-tech stations have been in place for a decade off Alaska, North Carolina, the Pacific Northwest, and Greenland.
They monitor ocean conditions, including storms, temperatures, and oxygen levels.
Their data is available in real time to the public.
Six observatories off the northwest coast had been quietly pulled from the sea starting last September.
They've been sitting in an Oregon warehouse.
The Science Foundation now says those observatories will go back in the water after being serviced.
In much of the country, summer temperatures in the 90s are normal, but not in the Northwest, where many homes lack air conditioning.
Temperatures on Monday were expected to hit 20 degrees above normal.
In the Seattle and Portland areas, officials have opened cooling centers.
Outdoor employers are required to give their workers extra rest breaks.
In Olympia, a homeless shelter offered rehydration drinks and popsicles, as well as a cool place to escape the heat.
Five years ago, a record-shattering heat dome hit the Northwest and killed more than a thousand people.
Unlike that heat wave, this one is only expected to last a couple of days.
For NPR News, I'm John Ryan in Seattle.
Our goal with each episode is to make you think, how did I live this long and not know that?
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In much of the country, summer temperatures in the 90s are normal, but not in the Northwest, where many homes lack air conditioning.
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