In a year filled with droughts, floods, and heatwaves, odds are good that the wildest weather events of 2022 are yet to come.
than in surrounding areas. Heaviside says this is sometimes exacerbated by air-conditioning systems, which throw heat out into the atmosphere while keeping interior spaces cool.
Even as anthropogenic climate change causes heat waves to become more frequent, longer-lasting, and more intense, Otto says, some countries still lack widespread awareness of extreme heat events. “Many of the African countries have no definition of a heat wave, so weather services are not recording or reporting if temperatures are unusual,” she notes.
Referring to the excessive temperatures in the US right now, David Robinson, a climate scientist at Rutgers University and the New Jersey State Climatologist, says ridges of high pressure in the atmosphere, which force air groundward, are partly to blame. “It heats up, reduces cloud cover, and allows more sun to bake the ground,” he explains. That scorched earth soaks up even more heat, and this can create persistently hot conditions.
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