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We are having a El Nino summer where temps get a little flipped.
In Texas we've had a cooler than normal, wetter summer with zero days over 100 yet. Our highs have been in the lower 90's mostly which by now we are usually in the upper and usually hitting over 100.
So like Politics, weather is local and it's not the hottest on record. Depending on where you live.
We've had a huge amount of rain. That usually stops about mid May.
I'm in SW Florida and normally our rainy season starts exactly June 1st. No so this year, so the temperatures never cooled down like they normally do after our daily afternoon rainstorms. We had almost a week of temps in the high 90's with high humidity and no rain thanks to the Saharan dust blowing this way. Finally last week the rains came but it's not even every day like we usually get.
After living here on and off since 1960 I can definitely see the weather has changed here.
I just read this the other day:
"The hottest summers in Europe in the last 500 years have all come in the last 17 years."
What's scary is thinking about how hot it's going to get in the next 17 years.
You got it, if this is the “new normal”, what happens when things get worse? There is absolutely no doubt that the climate extremes, be they heat, drought, floods or hurricanes, to name but a few, will intensify.
Is the world prepared for climate refugees by mid century?
I'm in SW Florida and normally our rainy season starts exactly June 1st. No so this year, so the temperatures never cooled down like they normally do after our daily afternoon rainstorms. We had almost a week of temps in the high 90's with high humidity and no rain thanks to the Saharan dust blowing this way. Finally last week the rains came but it's not even every day like we usually get.
After living here on and off since 1960 I can definitely see the weather has changed here.
Changed big time thanks to a displaced summertime ridge giving us a west flow almost all summer since the mid 80's. I am right on the gulf above Tarpon springs. Winters and falls have warmed the most.
If you think 97% of climate scientists agree that man is causing Global Warming, maybe you should review the abstract of the Cook Study (the cited source of the 97% statistic): "We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW (man-caused global warming), 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...326/8/2/024024
In other words, it is a 32.6% scientific consensus on man-caused gobal warming - not 97%.
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