Heat wave in Midwest is a result of what?
Yeah, you know where this is headed. Story:
Forecasters call the heat wave gripping the central U.S. "unrelenting," and say residents should not expect any relief soon.
Heat advisories and warnings are in place in 17 states, from Texas to Michigan, as temperatures and humidity combine to make being outside uncomfortable for millions.
Across the country, this month’s summer’s searing heat has tied or broken high temperature records nearly 900 times, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers.
What I want to know is when are the meteorologists going to stop calling all the extreme weather we’ve experienced over the past decade "unusual?" To me, this is starting to look like the new normal. Droughts, heat waves, wildfires, 500 year floods every five years or so — what we used to call unusual is what I now expect. But then I’m one of those heretical, devil worshiping believers in climate change.
Not mentioned?
Where the Midwest gets a lot of its rain during summers is from tropical storms and hurricanes in the Gulf. And of course “climate change”, aka global warming, tells us that the increased heat caused by increased CO2 will cause increased and more violent hurricanes.
Yet, here we are, well into hurricane season and still looking for our “A” hurricane.
Yup, it really doesn’t matter what happens where, someone, somehow is going to try to make it into a “climate change” event. But, as Stephen D at Booman Tribune notes, he’s a “believer” so connected dots isn’t particularly important when that’s the case.
~McQ
Twitter: @McQandO