Posted on 05/26/2026 10:35:55 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON (AP) — The dangerous heat wave shattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip. It’s the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds.
Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger. For example, the Southwest is used to coping with deadly heat, but not months ahead of schedule, including a 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44.4 degrees Celsius) reading in two Arizona communities on Friday that smashed the highest March temperature recorded in the U.S. Two places in Southern California also hit that same temperature. All four spots are clustered within about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) of each other.
“This is what climate change looks like in real time: extremes pushing beyond the bounds we once thought possible,” said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver. “What used to be unprecedented events are now recurring features of a warming world.”
March’s heat would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, according to a report Friday by World Weather Attribution, an international group of scientists who study the causes of extreme weather events.
More than a dozen scientists, meteorologists and disaster experts queried by The Associated Press put the March heat wave in a kind of ultra-extreme classification with such events as the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2022 Pakistan floods and killer hurricanes Helene, Harvey and Sandy.
The area of the U.S. being hit by extreme weather in the past five years has doubled from 20 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Extremes Index, which includes various types of wild weather, such as heat and cold waves, downpours and drought.
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“May has been nice in AZ.”
I was just about to post the same thing when I saw yours.
Up in the foothills north of Phoenix, we had eleven record breaking days in March. In April, we had one record breaking day, and eight below average days. The rest were normal. So far in May, we have had three record breaking days and 16 below average days. The rest have been normal.
Nothing that cannot be fixed with a boot stamping on a human face forever.
It’s been pretty cool/cold here in the Sacramento area
“It’s pretty nice in Tucson now.”
Likewise for Phoenix - been loving it!
Real-World Observations Do Not Support The Position That Climate Change Is Human-Caused
It’s freezing here in SoCal!
Its been a cool, rainy spring in Houston. Very pleasant other than the legion of extra mosquitoes.
So when it was unseasonably cold in this part of the country until this week, what is that called?
Low to mid 70s for the last week here in the central valley of Northern Commiefornia.
Remember, children, hot weather is climate but cold weather is just weather.
That was ‘climate change’... Now... It’s ‘global warming’.
Light snow forecast in the Sierra Nevada tomorrow night ... I presumably due to “global warming.” (”Climate change” is a focus-grouped term; the only “climate change” these control freaks are interested in is “global warming.”
Why are you asking me??? I didn't post this article.
Seth is the AP “climate change” reporter. He has to justify his paycheck every day.
Meanwhile, the deep south is cool.
Yeah, global warming, just like every year about this time.
You can fry an egg out there on the city sidewalk
You can fry your bacon and and and and
I understand why lizards live in sunny Arizona
Why people do and call it home I'll never understand
It's hotter than a furnace fan out in Arizona
110 ain't nothing when you live out there you see
Stars come out you scream and shout "Hey it's good to know you"
If you're going there and you don't mind say hello for me
Robert Earl Keen
This is what SUMMER looks like!
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