Jul 4, 2021
Extreme temperatures in China coupled with a lack of hydro-power forced blackouts in some of its largest industrial cities last month. A rare and short-lived subtropical storm popped up in the South Atlantic off Argentina and Uruguay. And record heat has seared Canada and the Pacific Northwest, while drought crackled the entire western U.S., leaving it primed to burn.
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just days old, but the extremes keep piling up. The conditions driving these events heat, ocean warming, changes in longstanding weather patterns aren’t going away anytime soon, meaning the worst may be yet to come.
Summer swelter trend: West gets hotter days, East hot nights
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Sizzling summer: West gets hotter days as East gets hot, sticky nights
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