The U.S. Is Set to Roast This Week Under a Potentially Record-Setting Heat Wave

[2MuchMark]

The only thing worse than the hottest time of summer is a heat wave on top of the hottest time of summer. And lo and behold, that’s exactly what the eastern U.S. is to deal with.

A powerful heat dome coupled with disgustingly moist air will envelop the country from the Rockies to the Eastern Seaboard starting on Wednesday and peaking on Friday and Saturday. During that time, an astounding 290 million people could experience temperatures above (and in some cases well above) 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Records could fall and cities are already preparing for dangerous heat by opening cooling centers. If this sounds like climate change, well, yeah this is basically what it looks like.

The cause of the dire heat is a bump in the jet stream. The fast-moving river of air running from west to east can act like a dam, separating cooler air to the north from hotter, humid air to the south. A blossoming area of high pressure over the eastern two thirds of the country will push the jet stream further north, allowing heat to build and humid air to come up from the tropics. The high pressure also means sunny skies, which will create a feedback loop of more heat and more intense high pressure. Temperatures are expected to rise 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.

Excessive heat warnings blanket the Upper Midwest and parts of the Mid-Atlantic with the National Weather Service warning “[d]angerously high temperatures and humidity could quickly cause heat stress or heat stroke if precautions are not taken.” Temperatures will climb into the upper 90s and low 100s from Texas to Iowa to New York.

But add in the humidity and you have a recipe for sultry conditions normally seen in places like the Texas Gulf Coast as far north Iowa. The combined heat plus humidity means some cities could experience a heat index above 110 degrees Fahrenheit during the day. The National Weather Service’s Philadelphia office emphasized the risks noting the high heat index will create a “DANGEROUS SITUATION.”

Cities will be particularly hard hit due to the urban heat island effect. All the paved surfaces absorb heat throughout the day and radiate it well into the night. That means overnight lows will not be so low, posing a huge public health risk. In Washington, D.C., overnight low temperatures are forecast to stay above 80 degrees Fahrenheit and there’s an outside chance the District could see its warmest night ever recorded according to Capital Weather Gang (that would be 84 degrees Fahrenheit, a record set in 1983 and tied in 2011).

Full story at https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-u-s-...Dg&/setsession

[escorpio]

God damn motherfucking Donald Trump!

[brassmonkey]

it's not a fucking heatwave. it has been way hotter. you keep making syrup muther fuker!

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by escorpio

God damn motherfucking Donald Trump!

Thats what I say every morning when I see he's still in the White House, too!

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

it's not a fucking heatwave. it has been way hotter. you keep making syrup muther fuker!

On it!

[OneHungLo]

It's just weather, Mark.

[OneHungLo]

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

Thats what I say every morning when I see he's still in the White House, too!


On it!

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

It's just weather, Mark.

Yes of course you are right. A heat wave is just weather.

[Phoenix]

im not a fan of these high temps

[~Evilin~]

Do not like a temperature higher than +25C ....
feels like a melted poo

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

I think you need to look at that chart again closely, and do a little digging. This chart does not help your argument.

The chart is for regional Greenland warming, not global warming. The data ends in 1855 before modern global warming began. The guy who made this chart is named Don Easterbrook who used Greenland as a proxy for global temperatures. Source.

Do this: I know you think climate change and global warming is nonsense. You and I will never agree on it and we'll both die in a heat wave one day. But until then, do this: Challenge your beliefs. Try going to a Nasa and Noaa's websites and do some reading there. But don't do it thinking its some liberal-run thing or anything like that. Just go and read it, click the links to proof of what they are saying etc, and think about it for a while.

This is important stuff. All jokes GFY grandstanding aside, you need to know and understand this stuff.

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

I think you need to look at that chart again closely, and do a little digging. This chart does not help your argument.

The chart is for regional Greenland warming, not global warming. The data ends in 1855 before modern global warming began. The guy who made this chart is named Don Easterbrook who used Greenland as a proxy for global temperatures. Source.

Do this: I know you think climate change and global warming is nonsense. You and I will never agree on it and we'll both die in a heat wave one day. But until then, do this: Challenge your beliefs. Try going to a Nasa and Noaa's websites and do some reading there. But don't do it thinking its some liberal-run thing or anything like that. Just go and read it, click the links to proof of what they are saying etc, and think about it for a while.

This is important stuff. All jokes GFY grandstanding aside, you need to know and understand this stuff.

Mark I've asked you to break it down in layman's terms as to why the CO2 and Temperature was MUCH MUCH higher thousands of years ago when the population was 1/1000 of today's and there wasnt any cars or fossil fuels being burned.

[Rochard]

It's been in the low 90s here.... Great weather really.

[Boozer]

90s is hot now? I am not even sure the low was below 90 last night.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Rochard

It's been in the low 90s here.... Great weather really.

nothing is low about 90's

[Bladewire]

It's been in the high 60's & low 70's here at monarch beach all week

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

Mark I've asked you to break it down in layman's terms as to why the CO2 and Temperature was MUCH MUCH higher thousands of years ago when the population was 1/1000 of today's and there wasnt any cars or fossil fuels being burned.

That is a good question honestly, and it is hard to answer, especially for me, a non scientist.

Here's what I do know.

- "Millions of years ago" is not specific. The CO2 Bump you are taking about was the Late Ordovician era, about 400 Million years ago. The guy who discovered this is named Robert Berner. He also said somewhere that because it was so long ago that the exact values reported may not be correct. But it doesn't matter for this argument, lets say that it was.

- CO2 is not the only gas blamed for climate change. Besides increased CO2, there is also increases in Methane (released by cattle farming, waste dumps, rice farming and the production of oil and gas), and Nitrous oxide, released by chemical fertilizers and burning fossil fuels. The last one is something like 300 times worse than CO2 when it comes to its ability to trap heat.

Regardless of what your chart shows, and what the CO2 Level was 400 Million years ago, the fact is is that the earth is warming up. Many people, myself included, blame human activity for this, but you don't have to believe that if you don't want to. Robbie for example, believes it to be a natural state of the Earth. Regardless of what you believe though, we should all take it seriously and explore steps to do what we can to help cool it off.

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

That is a good question honestly, and it is hard to answer, especially for me, a non scientist.

Regardless of what your chart shows, and what the CO2 Level was 400 Million years ago, the fact is is that the earth is warming up. Many people, myself included, blame human activity for this, but you don't have to believe that if you don't want to. Robbie for example, believes it to be a natural state of the Earth. Regardless of what you believe though, we should all take it seriously and explore steps to do what we can to help cool it off.

Mark. I first want to say I am 100% for getting away from fossil fuels and towards cleaner energy. Probably not at the rate you'd want to get it done because I don't want businesses bankrupted overnight through some some kind of draconian left wing EPA legislature.

Now as far as climate change denial goes, wouldn't you say you're in denial? We know that the earth has warmed up to much higher temps than now and cooled to where we are numerous times over the course of 10s of thousands of years. All while there was a fraction of the population with zero fossil fuels being burned. And you agree with this, so this being the umpteeth time the earth has gone through this wouldn't it make sense that it's just part of its natural warming and cooling trends?

This is just common sense. You'd have to make a leap to say no no no THIS is because of us and not its natural cycle.

[huey]

Its called summer.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

It's been in the high 60's & low 70's here at monarch beach all week

you fucking bastard! it was like 108 here i love the dry heat