Though the warmer
temperatures come in waves, it seems like each of these waves are lasting longer and longer in duration, and that's a telltale sign that spring and summer are really going to grace LA soon!
Not exact matches
The current heat
wave comes after record or near - record
temperatures last month
in many parts of the country.
As average U.S.
temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not
in the
coming years, the
waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»
The agency last week warned
in a report that more people will die during heat
waves, freshwater supplies will shrink, and diseases will spread
in coming years, among other impacts of increasing global
temperatures.
It
comes down to simple physics, the fact that greenhouse gases absorb outgoing long
wave radiation and that according to the Stephan Boltzmann equation the change
in temperature is proportional to the radiation balance.
With less attempts at precision, the report also pointed out that an increase
in extreme summer
temperatures would worsen the «excess human death and illness» that
came with heat
waves.
He then correlated these speeds with the available record of
temperature data, creating equations that could possibly determine the
temperature directly from the internal
wave speed
in the years to
come.
While no individual hurricane can be attributed to global warming, the report says, rising global
temperatures in the
coming decades are likely to cause significant increases
in severe weather events, such as hurricanes, floods, hailstorms, wildfires, droughts and heat
waves.
With an increase
in global average surface
temperatures comes higher odds of heat
waves.