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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I thought this heat was caused by the, ‘ Champagne Supernova El Nino’ this time around?
These liars are always trying to fool me! ;)
I know what will help....giant data centers that liberals love.
Here in Southern California, the month of March felt like summer, so naturally, the environmentalist wackos were screaming “Global Warming!” But May has been unusually cool, yet we haven’t heard a peep from them.
“when I checked my weather app, it was in the high 90s in the Phoenix area. That’s nothing new & hardly worth a news report.”
Currently 88 degrees in Carefree/Cave Creek AZ. The average high for May 26 is 95 degrees.
And it's going to snow again this week here in the Sierra.
I remember Tulsa OK, during THE COMING ICE AGE hysteria of 1972, the temperature on APRIL 12, 1972 WAS 104 DEGREES. Some had 106 degrees on their thermometers.
Never seen it so hot in April since.
The last few years has been mild. We usually have to put the AC on in the first week of May. Haven’t used any AC yet.
In the book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK by Bourke, about Frontier AZ he often mentions the heat in AZ in the 1870s.
He said one old man died that summer and went to HELL. He begged the Devil to be allowed to return to Arizona to get blankets as he was not used to the coolness of Hell as he was to the heat of Arizona.
Yeah, well, we had a nasty colder than average winter.
That’s what makes the average.
Idiots, all of them.
And just last month the Holy Goreacle said global warming will shut down the jet stream and cause an impending ice age.
High of 56 here in Eastern Oregon. About 20 cooler than normal all week so far.
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