From Paducah, Ky., to a section of the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico, Department of Energy weapons complex workers are coping with daytime high temperatures this week exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or in the case of Paducah, 100 degrees.
The DOE’s Paducah Site is expected to see daytime highs Tuesday through Thursday ranging from 100 degrees to 102 degrees before dropping to 95 degrees on Friday according to the local forecast from the National Weather Service.
The DOE Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio will be almost as hot, with high around 97-to-98 degrees over the same three-day period.
Daytime highs in the 90s are also expected much of this week at DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Nevada National Security Site, the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Eddy County, N.M. That is according to the National Weather Service forecasts.
