New analyses find that warming is fueling severe hot spells on both sides of the Atlantic this summer, spurring warnings about the need to guard against increasingly dangerous heat.
New analyses find that warming is fueling severe hot spells on both sides of the Atlantic this summer, spurring warnings about the need to guard against increasingly dangerous heat.
On Friday, close to half of Americans will endure heat made three times more likely by warming, according to a report from Climate Central. Heading into the weekend, extreme heat will bear down on the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, and much of the Southeast, with high humidity sending the heat index, an indicator of how hot it feels, above 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) in some parts.
The U.S. hot spell follows a heat wave that settled over southern Europe in July, when temperatures topped 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) in parts of Spain and the Balkans. A new analysis from World Weather Attribution finds the heat would have been “virtually impossible if humans had not warmed the planet by burning fossil fuels.”
Read more at: Yale Environment 360
Photo Credit: Hollie Blaydes at Westmill Solar Farm, England
