A heat wave currently roasting the southeastern US is expected to spread into the country’s Midwest and northeast, potentially affecting nearly 250 million people, with temperatures up to 40C.
There's always this tacit assumption by chud and liberal westerners that climate change catastrophes are a "third world thing", if they even believe in it at all
Indeed, in fact there is a good reason to suspect that things could get worse in parts that are further away from the equator. Places where temperature is already at the global maximum aren't going to see dramatic changes. However, places that are cooler have higher temperatures gradients leading to more turbulent weather.
Places where temperature is already at the global maximum aren't going to see dramatic changes.
It doesn't take a dramatic change to push an area from "hot" to "deadly." I'd take a high latitude continental climate at +10 degrees over normal over an equatorial region +5 over.
I remember as a kid during the summer in my area we would have maybe like a few days or a week of heat and that would be the heat wave for the year. Then it became 1-2 weeks of heat, then multiple heatwaves per year, and now it's just common for the heat to hang around all summer and then a solid 2ish months of high temps from like October to mid/late November. Last year I was wearing my summer clothes through early December. very cool and not concerning at all
yeah it's already unbearable outside. I thought last year was the worst summer I ever experienced, but seems like it'll be even worse this year. Last winter was uncharacteristically cold too and lasted longer.
I hope things get better, but it's hard to stay hopeful. I want all of you to stay safe and happy