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As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021′s onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming’s wrath in the past.
1 of 11 FILE - In this Wednesday, June 30, 2021 file photo, a man stands under a water feature trying to beat the heat at a splash park in Calgary, Alberta. Scientists say thereâs something different this year from the recent drumbeat of climate weirdness. This summer a lot of the places hit by weather disasters are not used to getting extremes and many of them are wealthier, which is different from the normal climate change victims. That includes unprecedented deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium, 116-degree heat records in Portland, Oregon and similar blisteri...
It was the hottest June in American history, and the fourth-hottest worldwide. The floor is lava; June 2021 was the hottest June in North American history. (Image credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery) If the melting power cables in Portland, Oregon, weren't enough of an indication, new satellite data confirms what many sweat-drenched Americans could have guessed: June 2021 was the single hottest June on record in North America. The new data comes courtesy of the European Union's Copernicus program, which produced climate measurements from billions of observations taken by sat...
June 2021 welcomes the summer season with extreme heat and drought, surpassing warmest temperature records set in North America, according to European Union's Copernicus program new data. The heat record measured by billions of observations from satellite, aircraft and weather stations around the world found that the month of June was the fourth-hottest month recorded worldwide and the second-warmest recorded in Europe. The North-east region of Europe has warmed the most at its peak, while heatwave conditions remained in western North America which broke heat records. (Photo : Photo by Chris ...
The polar vortex is at it again. The weather phenomenon responsible for bone-chilling cold fronts settling over parts of North America and Europe, including those that normally experience mild winters, has held much of the central United States in its icy grip the past few weeks. In mid-February, a blob of Arctic air moved as far south as Texas, causing extreme cold and heavy snowfalls, loss of life, traffic chaos and power outages for millions. According to the US National Weather Service, more than 100 million people over a distance of 1.6 million square kilometers were under ...