Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week.
The official start of summer is just a few weeks away, but it will feel like July in much of the West as temperatures climb 20 degrees or more above average, the highest temperatures of the year so far for many locations.
Excessive heat warnings are in effect for more than 17 million people in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona this week. The warnings are the most extreme form of heat alert issued by the National Weather Service and are used when widespread, dangerous heat is expected.
The soaring temperatures are being caused by a heat dome, a large area of high pressure that parks over an area, traps air and heats it with abundant sunshine for days or weeks. The resulting heat becomes more intense the longer a heat dome lasts.
Climate change effects are compounding, as polar caps melt they release trapped methane which is more effective greenhouse gas than CO2.
As temperatures heat up, people just gonna turn up HVAC more, more energy usage, which means we either get green real quick, or this feedback loop will continue until we break.
But all this is known. We’re all gonna be scrambling when we reach that point, spouting “We didn’t listen” like that episode of South Park about this very issue.
Meh, im sure the rich fucks have contingencies for themselves, so it’s all good.
Meh, im sure the rich fucks have contingencies for themselves, so it’s all good.
Yes. Die after everyone else does when they finally figure out that there’s nothing left to live for, money doesn’t mean shit if you’re king of a dead world.
🤣 The joke is that if society were to start collapsing, it won’t, but if, the rich people’s homes would be raided and looted first.
So the rich are fucking up doubley.
Like the idiots in World War Z who created a compound and then started livestreaming from it.
Is it just me or was ‘heat dome’ not even a thing like 10 years ago?
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They’ve always been a thing in Texas. The difference is now it moves around and the rest of you get to experience the miserable heat as well.
First one I personally remember was 2003 in Europe.
Here’s hoping those ass fucks in Texas get to see their fair share this bullshit. While they sit around climate denying they can fucking roast.
The residents of Texas are not completely to blame. Texas has the highest rates of voter suppression in the country. Secondly, the Texas education system has been built in a way to persist the current leadership in the state. And finally, many of the people live in poverty and will likely die for what oil execs and politicians have done.
Wishing this is short sighted and is blaming the symptom and not the root cause problem.
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Well that’s pretty misanthropic. Maybe don’t take your frustrations out on the average citizen that probably has nothing real to do with this, and who are the only people who will suffer from the climate issues. Cruz sure won’t.
As someone from Texas who isn’t a climate denier, fuck off.
Also we’re having severe thunderstorms nearly daily… I am not ready for the rebound of heat that’s about to come.
Vote better. Or, if you already do, work harder to get the fuckers out of office.
Triple digits? That’s way too much Celsius!
That title is very scary when you Live in Celsius
Spooked me for a moment
The graphic made me double take this also. I’m like, what new fresh hellish projection are we in for now.
Well . . . yeah, the planet’s dying.
We shold probably do something about that? I guess?
Planet will be fine, our ability to live on it not so much.
The entirety of planetary flora and fauna to see you, sir
Life uh… finds a way.
Tell that to the dodo.
Oh individual species may die, entire eco systems may collapse. But life as a process is extremely resilient.
Obviously we don’t want that happening.
I mean, it has survived all the other extinctions so far. It’s easy to be cocky about it.
We just don’t remember us doing it in so messed up a way before.
Life on earth sruvived the permian-triassic extinction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_event
Basically every volcano on earth lit up and choked the entire planet with toxic air, acid rain, continental fires, etc. Life survived that, it’ll survive humanity’s death throes.
Well I just wanted to say good luck, and we’re all counting on you.
Venus would also like a word.
Edit: For anyone curious, I’m referring to Venus as a potential model for runaway greenhouse effect.
Why does a razor marketed for women want to talk to me, a cis man with a big ol’ hippie beard?
Because she’s got it, yeah baby, she’s got it.
What differentiates a viking beard from a hippie beard?
Viking style beards are braided. Like this one:
The Earth used to be hotter than Venus was. The first mass extinction fixed that and turned our world into a snowball a couple times.
Just throw some ice asteroids at Venus and some cyanobacteria, and we can have 2 Earth like planets in a few hundred thousand years.
Provided we fix this one…
Horseshoe crabs will be fine.
Sponges, too. They’re filter feeders so all the decomposing bodies in the water cause them to flourish.
Which makes me immediately suspicious of anyone in square pants.
I prefer my domes thunder or teapot scandal
“this stuff just happens in waves. As long as it’s not cold!” - some people we’ll be sharing eternal beds with
At least I’m not wasting my time with children or church
I for one welcome the news spicing up weather forecasts with catchy yet threatening labels. We’ve gone from atmospheric rivers to heat domes. Maybe this is what’s needed to get people to consider climate action. They’ll be movie titles soon enough.
Oh the joys of my apartment AC breaking
I sincerely hope those are burger units.
Fuck. Stay safe all.
Fuck
The worst part about this, is that some people still don’t use metric.
Edit- tough crowd
I’m American but I grew up in Europe. When it comes to metric units I am absolutely in favor of meters, liters, grams, etc. since they make more sense than Imperial units and are easier to use in most situations.
But for temperature scales while Celsius is great for scientific measurements, Fahrenheit is better for describing the temperatures humans live at.
Celsius is just as good at describing temperatures humans experience. Every 5o is ‘category’:
< -10o Cripes it’s cold!
-10 to -5o Cold
-5 to 0o Snow/ice will melt
0o ‘true’ freezing/melting temperature
0 to 5o Cool
5 to 10o Brisk, jacket optional
10 to 15o Cool, Comfortable to work
15 to 20o Cold house
20 to 25o Typical house temps
25 to 30o Shorts recommended
30 to 35o Hot
35 to 40o Severely hot
'> 40o Crazy hot.
It’s simply just getting used to the values which you have to do with F too anyways, and IMO the C scale just makes far more sense. With F none of the values are intuitive and require you to learn them all.
Agreed. I tried to adjust to Celsius when I moved abroad from the US, and my biggest issue with it was actually in temperature control. I lived in a tiny studio apartment with an in-wall A/C unit, so I had really accurate, nearly instantaneous control of the room temperature except that often it would be too hot at one temperature setting but too cold if I reduced it by a single degree (Celsius). Had the system been in fahrenheit I would have had around three times as much sensitivity to control, which would have been perfect.
No, the worst part is that the triple digit temperatures ARE in Celsius!
I’m sure they all will after they read this comment.
The imperial system of measurement is for losers.
