Millions face record-high temperatures as heat dome intensifies over US
Cities in midwest and north-east brace for heatwave with some to experience highs of 105F – 25 degrees above normal
Extreme heat has begun to hit the US, delivered by a high-pressure weather pattern that the federal weather prediction center says will be “potentially the longest experienced in decades for some locations”.
According to meteorologists with WeatherBELL Analytics, about 265 million people in the US are forecast to see air temperatures reach or exceed 90F (32C), with many of them experiencing heat indices of about 105F by next Sunday.
The system, an upper-level ridge of high pressure, is expected to bring record-breaking temperatures in the 90s and beyond. Some areas will experience temperatures as high as 105F, or 25 degrees above normal.
Cities forecast to be hit by the heatwave include Chicago, St Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, New York City and Albany, New York.
The last time it got above 95 where I live, I was a child, nobody went outside that week, and everyone was complaining that it was the hottest days they've ever felt there.
It's already happened 3 times this year. Once in "winter". All of this week has been above 95.
This is the hottest year of your life....
Every year.
Until you die.
Potentially of heat-related conditions.
And i still have old people saying to my face that it was "hotter when they grew up, things are just going back to normal"
Tetraethyl lead will do that to brain cells.
I wonder if PFAS are having an effect as well.
It wasn't hotter, they just didn't have nearly as much air conditioning.
My mom just constantly says "the weather has been weird lately." You would think she would see a pattern after so many years.