Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me.

zlabe@fediscience.org

Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little.

️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change.

Graphic by https://polarwx.com/models/.

rvlara23@mastodon.social

@ZLabe

Don't worry, conservatives will just call it early Summer!

It's all fine.

Let's do more coal!

lcwheeler@ecoevo.social

@ZLabe Yeah, went for a trail run near Grand Lake, CO this afternoon and it was 69F at 8,800ft elevation. Down on the prairie in Boulder it's supposed to hit 89F tomorrow.

tjc_2@mastodon.social

@ZLabe
And his Dumbness wants to drill and burn us into climate hell.

martyb4@mastodon.social

@ZLabe But so many say climate change is a hoax. Could they be wrong?

shadsterling@mastodon.social

@ZLabe more and more concerned about a mass death event when a summer heat wave triggers a power grid failure

alienghic@timeloop.cafe

@ZLabe

I'm pretty depressed about the summer.

I really wish our the wealthy in our world weren't choosing mass death

ggmcbg@mstdn.plus

@ZLabe

And now both of us OOW with no A/C for the third year and definitely-counting. Sweet.
Radiant heat is the bastard of it all. Can feel the heat pulse from the walls into the rooms, pushing from all sides.
I'm turning the room furthest from any direct sun into a compartmentalized cool room for the pets and us.

autumnbaum@mindly.social

@ZLabe
I was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona. My family is still in that valley, and has been for four generations. Though some of us have escaped, they seem trapped. Towns on the Mogollon Rim are deserted due to a lack of well water, Summers are starting earlier, lasting later, and experiencing higher temperatures than ever. Each year gets worse, and people are still moving in!

I'm grateful that I escaped to the Pacific Northwest in 2009, and only hope that more family does the same.

crumbletiltskin@mastodon.social

@ZLabe and it's happening at a much quicker pace than previously forethought

ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai

@ZLabe

What has me worried is that these sorts of heat domes will show up in the summer months.. along with deadly heat index.

People seem to forget that plant life also has to transpire water in order to keep their leaves from cooking in the sun.

He’s stressed greenery may not have enough moisture to keep themselves from frying. Oh, was that the 7% more water vapor capacity, sucking all the moisture out of the ground?

This is global

melabee@theforkiverse.com

@ZLabe Take care! In 2021 we had a heat dome in BC. Over 600 people died. One entire town burned down. Temps over 40. My condo baked. Top floor, no shade. Portable a/c kept one room below 30. Children played in the parking garage under our building and I saw the future: One day we will sleep down here for weeks at a time; we'll put tents in our parking spaces. I moved last year. New condo is on the main floor, north facing, lots of trees. Large parking garage.