From the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the Northern Hemisphere continued to sizzle with extreme heat as the start of summer more resembled the dog days of August.
It’s not just the U.S.
Temperatures in the northwest have shattered record highs by more than 10 degrees. Oregon State University vice provost and climate scientist Philip Mote discusses just how rare this heat is, and the broader evidence about human effects on the climate.Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini said what’s happening with this early heat wave is “very consistent with what we’d expect in a continually warming world.
In Raleigh, North Carolina, it hit 100 on Wednesday and usually the city only gets one 100-degree a day a year, but it comes much later than this, said state climatologist Kathie Dello.
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