A scorching 4 July in the USA: temperatures reach 48 degrees
A good part of US territory will continue to bake this week, and according to weather forecasts the oppressive heat will stretch from Texas to Arizona, all the way to Florida.
One wonders what Donald Trump will think – remember when, to mock climate change, he tweeted during a snow and ice storm in the Midwest, wondering where global warming had gone and calling for its return… – on learning that the powerful heatwave hitting the United States in recent days is about to reach his beloved Florida as well.
A good part of US territory will continue to bake this week, and according to weather forecasts the oppressive heat will stretch from Texas to Arizona, all the way to Florida.
The south of the country is therefore preparing to celebrate 4 July, Independence Day, with (joking aside, though the matter is terribly serious) the possibility of cooking steaks directly in the sun, without using a barbecue. It is in the middle of a record heatwave that is expected to continue until the 4 July holidays. The dome of heat and high pressure that has been sitting over Texas for several days is already moving east and north, bringing the highest temperatures of the season so far to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as well.
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“Since we’re hotter than Death Valley right now, is it safe to say the Concho Valley is the new Death Valley this June? Because this heat and humidity are definitely like death, to be honest.” This was a tweet, half ironic and half dramatic, posted by meteorologists in San Angelo, Texas, on Sunday during the record heat. Temperatures reached 119 °F, or 48.3 Celsius, in the Big Bend area: one degree short of Texas’s all-time record of 120 set in 1936 and 1994 (National Weather Service data).
But beware. “There could be more danger than in a typical heat event,” the meteorologists warned, “because of the longevity of the record-high overnight lows and the high heat index readings during the day.” We bet Trump has already called for maintenance to check the hundreds of air conditioners that we imagine his mega estate at Mar-a-Lago must have.
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