Punishing heat arriving across South Texas this week places most residents in region under ‘extreme’ threat of negative heat-related health impacts.
The first full blast of industrially supercharged heat of 2024 is arriving this week across San Antonio and South Texas. With temps expected to reach well above 10 degrees over the area’s historical average highs, Climate Central researchers have determined much of the heat arriving will have been made utilizes data from 22 climate models and calculates the frequency of the temperatures in the modeled climates as well the frequency of daily temperatures for the past 30 years.
Global temps have been breaking heat records regularly for years as greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere over the last hundred years have surged to levels not seen. The rise in heat-trapping gases, most significantly carbon dioxide, is a result of both the incessant burning of fossil fuels and the elimination of “,” such as old-growth forests, that historically have absorbed and held much of that carbon.
“on’t blame El Nino for the scorching heat you’re experiencing,” Texas A&M-based climate scientist Andrew Dessler chimed in. “Instead,