A person cools off in a water fountain by the Hudson River as a heat wave hits the northeast US on June 20, 2024 in New York. Most of the United States will experience hotter than normal weather throughout the summer, from July to September, a US government agency predicted Thursday, as a large part of the country sizzled in the first heat wave of the year.
A heat dome almost certainly leads to a heat wave, Mann said, but not all heat waves are associated with heat domes, and such extremes during the summer season can likely be tied to anthropogenic warming. "You're shifting that baseline, everything is moving towards being a bit warmer," he told AFP on June 18."And it has a non-linear effect, if you like, on the extremes.""If the same heat dome had occurred decades ago, the underlying temperatures would have been cooler, so the heat wave temperatures would have been cooler as well," she told AFP on June 20.
"Such an extreme is precisely what the US East Coast, and many other regions of the world where many vulnerable people live, including India and China, are experiencing this June," he said.Residents fold pipes after filling their containers with water supplied by a municipal tanker in New Delhi on June 21, 2024