BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 21:09:00
Temperatures, more hot extremes, but what we have to do is, if we did not change the average, and we still had the average from 100 years ago, we would have record—breaking heat waves all the time. every 30 years we change the average. last time we had the average of 1961—90, we have updated that to 1990—2020. a lot of the counties around the country have actually had to increase the threshold at which they define a heatwave. we are not getting more heat waves but that is because we are ma...
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