(Aug. 31, 2020 / JNS)
As temperatures soar across Israel, the Israel Electric Corporation reported an all-time high in power consumption on Sunday.
According to the IEC, at 2:33 p.m. on Sunday, power generation hit 14,089 megawatts. The previous record, 13,854 MW, was recorded on May 20 of this year.
The temperature in the Lower Galilee town of Yavne’el hit 116.6 degrees on Sunday, while in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, south of the Kinneret in the Upper Jordan Valley, thermometers measured as high as 114.8 degrees.
Temperatures were higher than usual all across the country, and the heatwave is expected to remain until the middle of next week, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
