A heat dome over many Midwest and Northeastern states has led to record-breaking high temperatures.
The sweltering temperatures scorching most of the Midwest, Northeast, East Coast and South this week can be seen on a new NASA map.The map was created using satellite observations on Wednesday, with temperatures about 6 feet above the ground predicted by NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System model. The darkest red color on the map indicates that temperatures were 93 degrees F or higher.
With the increasing effects of climate change, heat waves like this one are becoming more and more common: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center researchers found that between 1980 and 2023, summer heat waves across the U.S. doubled in frequency.'We have warmed up the planet by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last century or so,' Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the NASA Earth Observatory.
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