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West getting roasted by ever-hotter summer days
West is fastest-warming region in country,
up 3 degrees on average since 1990
By SETH BORENSTEIN
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — As out-
landish as the killer heat
wave that struck the Pacific
Northwest was, it fits into
a decades-long pattern of
uneven summer warming
across the United States.
The West is getting
roasted by hotter summer
days while the East Coast is
getting swamped by hotter
and stickier summer nights,
an analysis of decades of
U.S. summer weather data
by The Associated Press
shows.
State-by-state average
temperature trends from
1990 to 2020 show Amer-
ica’s summer swelter is
increasing more in some
of the places that just got
baked with extreme heat
over the past week: Cal-
ifornia, Nevada, New
Mexico, Arizona, Utah,
Oregon and Colorado.
The West is the fast-
est-warming region in the
country during June, July
and August, up 3 degrees
on average since 1990. The
Northwest has warmed
nearly twice as much in the
past 30 years as it has in the
Southeast.
That includes Port-
land, which set a record
116-degree high that was 3
degrees warmer than tem-
peratures ever recorded
in Oklahoma City or Dal-
las-Fort Worth.
Although much of the
primary cause of the past
week’s extreme heat was an
unusual but natural weather
condition, scientists see
the fingerprint of human-
caused climate change,
citing altered weather pat-
terns that park heat in dif-
ferent places for longer
periods.
“The ridiculous tempera-
tures in the Pacific North-
west may on one hand be
considered a black swan
(ultra-rare) event, but on
the other hand are totally
consistent” with long-term
trends, said meteorologist
Judah Cohen of the pri-
vate firm Atmospheric and
Environmental Research.
“So I am not going to pre-
dict when is the next time
Portland will hit 116 but I
believe hotter summers for
the broader region are here
to stay.”
Climate change is
altering and weakening the
jet stream, narrow bands of
wind that circle the Earth
flowing west to east. Those
changes allow key weath-
er-producing patterns of
high and low pressure to
stall in place. High pressure
is stalling more often in the
West in summer, said Penn-
sylvania State University
climate scientist Michael
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“Dry soil also cools off
faster at night.”
That’s partly why the
West, which is getting
drier by the decade and is
mired in a 20-year mega-
drought, is seeing those
crazy triple-digit daytime
temperatures.
The East is getting
wetter by the decade,
NOAA records show, and
the East Coast is seeing its
biggest warming increase at
night. The overnight lows in
New Jersey and Delaware
have warmed 3 degrees
since 1990, the biggest
increases in the nation.
Water vapor is a
greenhouse gas, Francis
explained, “so at night it
traps more of the heat.”
Kathie Dello, North
Carolina’s state climatol-
ogist, attributes the trends
to human-caused warming.
“There’s no other explana-
tion,” she said.
She added that while
the extreme daytime highs
may be eye-popping,
warmer nights can also be
dangerous.
“Warm nights may not
sound like a problem, but
they are a public health risk
for people who lack suffi-
cient cooling,” she said.
And hiding from the
heat is becoming harder and
harder: “All my places to
go for a quick break were
absurdly hot — Oregon,
North Carolina, even
upstate New York? Where
is left to go? Even Canada
isn’t safe.”
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