Summer heat waves are typical in Texas, but experts say climate change is affecting their severity. The annual surface temperature by 2036 is expected to be 3 degrees warmer than the average for the last half of the 20th century. | via TexasStandard
Summer heat waves are typical in Texas, but experts say climate change is affecting their severity – and according to a recent report by the state climatologist, the, when will we get a break? Victor Murphy – a meteorologist with the National Weather Service and the climate services program manager for its Southern Region Headquarters, based in Fort Worth – shared his outlook on Texas’ weather:Well, that depends on how you define “soon,” Murphy said.
“That dome of high pressure sort of shifted eastward yesterday and today, so, we’ll see the slight little cool off – but then it shifts back westward over us over the weekend, so we heat back up a little bit,” he said. “At the end of the day, probably a degree or two worth of cooling, today, yesterday through tomorrow or so, and then a couple of degrees worth of warming back up again later in the week and over the weekend.
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