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Extreme heat wave affects Southern California for a week

Rank
Ran
42h
Updated
32h ago
Closed
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
3

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New York Times United States · English 2 Oct, 21:12 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · Polski (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 44 hours.

2 4 6
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: New York Times, 2 Oct, 21:12 UTC.
  2. Second country: Peru, with El Comercio.
  3. Second region: Europe, with TVN24.
  4. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

44 of 44 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

83%17%

  • Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 83%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

  1. New York Times 2 Oct, 21:12 UTC
  2. El Comercio +5h 23m
  3. TVN24 +12h 26m
  4. Infobae +18h 6m
  5. NBC News +25h 53m

Last to join

  1. ABC News 4 Oct, 17:11 UTC
  2. NBC News 3 Oct, 23:06 UTC
  3. Infobae 3 Oct, 15:18 UTC
  4. TVN24 3 Oct, 09:38 UTC
  5. El Comercio 3 Oct, 02:36 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: California faces extreme heat wave with power and fire risks, 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Argentina, Peru, United States. Europe 1: Poland. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, Polish.
Timeline
Earliest article New York Times, 2 Oct 2026, 21:12 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 22:20 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 17:11 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.00, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues California faces extreme heat wave with power and fire risks. Continued by Extreme heat wave in California breaks records and raises wildfire risk; Calor extremo en Los Ángeles: la ciudad podría romper récords de temperatura de 1971 esta semana. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
3 Oct 2026 292 2.67 4 4 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 22:20 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 17:11 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 5 outlets

  • ABC News United States 4 Oct, 17:11 UTC
    October heat wave continues to bake California, breaking multiple temperature records
  • El Comercio Peru 4 Oct, 02:06 UTC
    Alerta por ola de calor en el sur de California: pronóstico día por día hasta el 9 de octubre y zonas afectadas
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    • Ola de calor en California podría durar más de lo previsto: esta es la advertencia del NWS para octubre 3 Oct, 15:51 UTC
    • Atención, ola de calor impacta el sur de California: dónde habrá temperaturas de hasta 105 °F y hasta cuándo se extenderá 3 Oct, 02:36 UTC
  • NBC News United States 3 Oct, 23:06 UTC
    Tens of millions on alert for dangerous heat
  • Infobae Argentina 3 Oct, 15:18 UTC
    El sur de California enfrenta una ola de calor extremo con máximas de hasta 42 ℃
  • New York Times United States 2 Oct, 21:12 UTC
    Extreme Heat in Los Angeles Area Expected to Last at Least a Week

Europe 1 outlet

  • TVN24 Poland 3 Oct, 09:38 UTC
    Kalifornia. Szykują się na falę upału. Temperatura może przekraczać 40 stopni
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