Weather Blogs

An intense heat wave is expected to move across the country beginning Friday in the Plains and spreading into the Mississippi Valley and Midwest Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures well into the 90s are likely, with numerous areas possibly flirting with the triple digit mark.

The past few months provide us a nice example of climate, and a useful framing for thinking about the future. Scientists are always explaining that just because the globe is, on average, warming, that does not mean that it no longer gets cold. When I have written about this in the past, I always start with the Sun still goes away at the winter pole; it gets cold; the pole is relatively isolated, so there are cold pockets of air up north.