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A heat wave that has stifled the southern tier of the U.S. for weeks has expanded into the Plains, Midwest and now the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Thursday, triggering heat alerts for over 227 million people, according to the National Weather Service.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It should not be this hot at 10:30 at night.

[–] Fredselfish 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree and yet half of America wants to pretend man made climate change is fact and we are having no effect on the earth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you blame them? It's such an uncomfortable truth!

(Of course pretending it doesn't exist isn't going to do a damn thing.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hell yes I can blame them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It’s such an uncomfortable truth!

Some might even call it an Inconvenient Truth!

[–] Pohl 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We’ve been so fortunate up here in the Great Lakes. Only one day above 90 in the 10 day forecast here and it’s still gonna dip below 70 every night.

Heat dome won’t step to 5k cubic miles of cold water.

Be safe out there!

[–] cedarmesa 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] MostlyBirds 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, it will. The reason we haven't been affected is simply because this isn't where this heat dome is. We can and will get them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just wait till the migrations start. Places like that are going to become very crowded in the coming years.

[–] SheeEttin 3 points 1 year ago
[–] onionbaggage 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard you got 5 cubic miles of cold water... Sure would be a shame if that became 5 cubic miles of hot water.

[–] Pohl 1 points 1 year ago

The lakes hold 5500 cubic miles of water, not 5. But yes, the lakes have been warming, surface temps on Superior are 2.5C hotter than they were 50 yrs ago. Which is alarming no doubt. The deep temps in Superior remain a constant 4C all year round and that temp seems to be pretty stable.

We got lucky with the lake winds this week. That’s all.

People who think climate change is going to spare this region are overstating the case by a lot. That said, I guess being on defense in the water wars will be better than being on offense… maybe?