The Climate models predicted heatwaves like America’s record-breaking weekend




The US hasn’t seen anything quite like this. Over the weekend, temperatures soared to new triple-digit heights across the American West. The immediate cause

was a “ heat dome a mass of high-pressure air trapping heat beneath it, one far stronger and larger than normal.

 But what we saw this weekend is what climate scientists have been predicting for decades. And it’s a taste of what’s to come. “It’s surreal to see your models become real life,” Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, says in The Guardian .


Records fell across the region. On June 17, California’s capital of Sacramento hit 110°F  (43°C), smashing the last record of 102°F set in 1976. Similar all-time highs fell in Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, and other cities thousands of miles apart. In Death Valley National Park, where temperatures soared to 128°F, just one degree off the record, nighttime temperatures stayed above 111°F (44°C)well past midnight, among the hottest nights ever recorded in North America.



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