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Heat Dome Lurks, Putting More Than 130M in US in Dangerous Heat
The Messenger ^ | 23 Aug 2023 | Luke Funk

Posted on 08/24/2023 5:41:42 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

Roughly 130 million people in 22 states are under various heat warnings, watches and advisories as a dangerous heat dome settles over a huge section of the county.

The searing August heat wave is forecast to continue through at least the end of this week.

The National Weather Service says a potent upper-level ridge is anchored over the Mid-Mississippi Valley, trapping the hot air.

It is bringing oppressive heat from the central U.S. to the Gulf Coast. High temperatures throughout these areas are forecast to reach into the upper 90s and low 100s through Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bermudahigh; frying; scorching; searing; sizzling; summer; summertime
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To: Alas Babylon!

It’s been near or over 100 degrees almost every day since late June here in Texas. I think the highest was 109.


61 posted on 08/24/2023 10:15:16 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Bob434

Summers are hot? Day-um!


62 posted on 08/24/2023 10:16:05 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Heat Dome Lurks, Putting More Than 130M in US in Dangerous Heat

There are SEVERAL THINGS LURKING that are much more pressing than HEAT!

63 posted on 08/24/2023 10:18:28 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Alas Babylon!

Announcement from super greenies: We need to order the shut down of all air conditioners in all business and homes as they are just making it hotter outside by cooling the inside of the businesses and homes. We MUST do this to stand in solidarity with the homeless who don’t have any air conditioning on the sidewalks where they sit and/or lay. (please note this is sarcasm)


64 posted on 08/24/2023 10:24:32 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: PLMerite

Have you lived there all your life?

How does this summer stack up to summers there over the years?


65 posted on 08/24/2023 10:40:47 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Noumenon

that’s the rumor lol


66 posted on 08/24/2023 11:06:13 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: NWFree
"the heat dome is a good description"

It's a very good description of the physical phenomenon in 3D.

A heat dome is caused when atmosphere traps hot ocean air, as if bounded by a lid or cap. Heat domes happen when strong high pressure atmospheric conditions remain stationary for an unusual amount of time, preventing convection and precipitation and keeping hot air "trapped" within a region. This can be caused by multiple factors, including sea surface temperature anomalies and the influence of a La Niña.[1][2]

The excessive scoffing and cynicism around here on any scientific topic is just as deranged as the other side.

67 posted on 08/24/2023 11:27:14 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Alas Babylon!

No, I got here from the east coast in 2017. This is the hottest summer since I’ve been here I’m pretty sure.


68 posted on 08/24/2023 11:41:44 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: PGR88

DC is set to have a much cooler than the average 89° August.


69 posted on 08/24/2023 12:16:16 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Don’t forget Boiling!


70 posted on 08/24/2023 12:20:13 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: PLMerite

2017!

You’re one of them fresh immigrants!

Ask around.. Bet you’ll be told it’s been hotter.

And that’d be true.


71 posted on 08/24/2023 12:45:31 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Yes. It’s really hot outside.


72 posted on 08/24/2023 12:47:34 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Alas Babylon!

I have pictures of my mom and her sisters laying out in the yard under a tree because the summer that year was abnormally hot and the houses had no AC back then.

It isn’t any hotter now than it was back then.


73 posted on 08/24/2023 1:07:02 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Alas Babylon!

It never got this hot in Brooklyn, it’s like africa hot, Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IUDNMlKW1U


74 posted on 08/24/2023 2:57:40 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Alas Babylon!

The National Weather Service waited until the middle of August to announce that it’ll be hot? Should’ve been all cemented in by, oh, May. Kinda sounds like dereliction of global warming duties.


75 posted on 08/24/2023 3:14:08 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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