Add “heat domes” to your climate change vocabulary.
Last week’s heat wave and supercharged high-pressure zone points to more extreme weather, with more high temperatures forecast for later this week.
Heat domes make the drought in the West even worse and, according to climate scientist Daniel Swain, “there’s a crystal clear human fingerprint on extreme heat and extreme heat events . . . climate change is making these sorts of things worse.”
Update: models not really backing off on this one. Highest confidence in extreme and possibly historically hot temps this weekend/next week is across Oregon, but could also extend across Washington and northern CA depending on how things evolve. #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx https://t.co/kMLQKhkVQ1
— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) June 22, 2021
Sigh. Summertime seems to be getting less fun every year . . .
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