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Records are falling as temperatures rise amid a high-end heat wave that is cooking the Great Plains. Temperatures have risen to 115 degrees in Texas and Oklahoma, and more than 60 million Americans are expected to see three-digit heat over the next week.
Heat warnings and excessive heat warnings affect more than 105 million people in 28 states in both the central and northeastern United States, where the combination of warm weather and high humidity will lead to mature disease conditions. related to heat or heat stroke.
Excessive heat warnings and heat warnings are in effect this morning in 28 states, stretching from California to New Hampshire. High temperatures in the 1990s and 1990s will increase the risk of heat-related illnesses. For thermal safety tips, visit: pic.twitter.com/rFmVCKxDSV
– NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) July 20, 2022
The Weather Channel tweeted that more than 200 million people will experience highs that will exceed 90 degrees over the next three days.
Dallas, Oklahoma City and Tulsa could approach 110 degrees in the next few days, and some places have surpassed that. For the first time, each of Oklahoma’s network of 120 weather stations reached 103 degrees on Tuesday.
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The city of Oklahoma itself rose to 110 degrees for the first time in a decade on Tuesday. This is only the ninth time since shortly after World War II that the capital of Sooner State has been so hot, an event once every 10 years, on average. It also breaks a record that has been held since 1936.
The most notable reading was from Mangum, southwestern Oklahoma, which reached 115 degrees at 5:55 p.m.
It was a comparable heat in North Texas, where Fort Worth Meacham International Airport rose to 110 degrees and Dallas reached 109. Wichita Falls reached 115, a July record.
“Another exceptional hot day awaits us with the forecast of three-digit highs for all of North and Central Texas,” the Fort Worth National Weather Service wrote in an online technical discussion.
Dallas is expected to peak at around 107 degrees on Wednesday, and should be in the lower 100 degrees essentially until further notice. Austin and San Antonio also expect similar temperatures.
“We’re a little on our third wave of temperatures well above average this summer in south central Texas,” Keith White, an Austin Meteorological Service meteorologist, said in an interview Wednesday. “Austin could be looking at 106 or 107. Today. Last week, there were three days in Austin at 106 or more.
Every day between July 9 and 13 in Austin they tied or broke a record. The city reached a whopping 110 degrees on July 10 and reached 109 on the 11th and 12th. This is the hottest three-day stretch that has been recorded in the city; Accounting dates back to 1897.
“The 110 degrees on the 10th tied with our second warmest temperature on record in Austin,” White said. So far, Austin has recorded 39 hundred-degree days this season, and San Antonio up to 40.
“This is the highest we’ve ever seen at this time of the season, even surpassing 2011, the main year of drought and wildfires,” White said.
Drought and fire have been problems in much of Texas and Oklahoma, where red flag warnings are in effect. Along and especially west of Interstate 35, humidity levels below 25 percent, along with gusts of up to 30 mph, are preparing mature conditions for rapid fire spread.
Several fires broke out in north central Texas on Monday, including Somervell County, southwest Dallas.
Forest Fire (Somervell County) Another forest fire has occurred in Somervell County near Highway 67 and CR 1004 southwest of Glen Rose. Asking for help in Hood County. pic.twitter.com/fgc4iYSMux
– DFW Scanner (@DFWscanner) July 18, 2022
“We’ve had a lot of fires in our region, and even more and bigger ones in other areas of Texas,” White said. He blamed both the recent wave of dry weather and an abnormally wet spring last year. This helped the plants grow and provided greater availability of fuels that would then dry out.
“[The wet spring in 2021] it allowed a lot of vegetation to grow more than normal, then we had a drier winter, spring and summer, making things susceptible to burning, ”White said.
Closer to the Gulf Coast, there is a touch of moisture. While this will limit slightly lower temperatures, between 98 and 102 degrees, the juicy air mass in place will help heat indexes exceed 105 degrees.
“Today will be a scandal, wherever you are [area]”Wrote the Houston Meteorological Service.
This moisture flows north into the Ozarks and also into the Mississippi Valley. In Little Rock, Wednesday’s high temperature was forecast to reach just a hair above 100 degrees, but heat rates could flicker by 115 degrees.
The local Meteorological Service office described the setting as “hot, bogus conditions and basically” swimming in the air “.
What is behind the heat? A stagnant high-pressure ridge colloquially known as a “heat dome.” The high pressure causes the air to sink, which cleans the sky and promotes great insolation. The discharge acts as a kind of force field, deflecting the jet stream northward and deflecting any bad weather toward Canada.
While the heat dome looks set to move east in the next few days, it doesn’t look like it will break soon, meaning there is no immediate end in sight of the heat. In Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dallas, Wichita Falls, Houston, Austin and Little Rock, highs should stay around 100 degrees or above for at least next week.
The heat will also bleed towards the east coast. Heat warnings span Wednesday from Delaware through parts of inland New York to southern New Hampshire, where the combination of heat and humidity will make you feel between 95 and 100 degrees north and 100 to 105 degrees to the south.
This weekend some of the hottest weather on the east coast is forecast. On Sunday, the highs could hit the Washington mark of the century in New York for the first time in at least a few years.
The heat coincides with a historically extreme event in Europe, which has so far killed more than 1,000 people and fueled forest fires that have resulted in the evacuation of 40,000. A staggering 34 weather stations broke the 101.7-degree threshold in Britain, recording higher temperatures than anything Britain has observed before.
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