what we ve seen in recent times is that they occur earlier. they are much more widespread. and it takes a lot more to recover from them. so he s these drought areas, it won t be just one or two rain or snowfall events in the wintertime that will alleviate the situation, it will be much more long term. and typically hot across the south central united states. but for californians, the interior valleys, this is where it will be excessively hot. temperatures here are going to be in the triple digits. but not just 100, 102 degrees. we re looking at 108 degrees sacramento, it is going to be excruciatingly hot. and we re also looking at just the humidities that will be very dry. and so you get a combination like that, and then we look at that fire danger which has been so critical here over the path decade or so, palm springs, a temperature up to 110 degrees.
could have monsoonal rain. recent rain in new mexico brought some relief, drought levels from dropped from 80% to 30% over the last three months. for more, we re joined by karen hk m m maginniss. we ve been talking about who needs the wet weather more than others, who needs the heat. a lot of people got a lot of heat. what we ve seen is fairly widespread monsoonal moisture. it this will never be a day long rain event and it will never be a drought breaker. but what it does provide is some summertime moisture and that is very valuable to the farmers and growers across the west. it is still very dry in a number of areas, but some of those exceptional drought areas, those
consider that when you warm the planet, the capacity of the air to retain moisture goes up. the records in climate change. yes. generally when we think of weather, we don t think of clear blue skies. we think of what water is doing in the atmosphere. when we think of weather, that s what we think of. so when you store that much more moisture in the atmosphere, we are that much more susceptible to the extremes of weather. so a storm would be more intense. drought areas would be more intense. and so these are shots across our bow. and to have people still saying i choose not to follow what the consensus of observations and experiments gives us, regarding let s talk about sea level, right? that s not anything to do with weath whether you accept climate change. it s whether you can read a ruler. so this is not what you re talking about, we know that the