Europe's heatwave is getting the attention, but look at the Weather Channel map for America today...

[marmar]

En fuego almost everywhere......

[KPN]

1. Yikes!

[onecaliberal]

2. Fresno 110. All week.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. Yep...hot air being sucked up from Mexico all the way

up to Minnesota.
http://hint.fm/wind/
Also, due to the lack of rainfall over the last year means there is little evaporation from the ground that there would normally be that would cool things down some when it gets hot.

[Kaleva]

4. Working outside yesterday with my new shoulder was an ass kicker

Everything is harder using just one arm and it was really hot on top of that.

[Chin music]

5. Tipping point reached?

Sure looks like it.
Global extreme temps all at one. Melting poles.
No/little winds.
It's here. When they were talking abut temps rising globally 1-3degrees centigrade? Hows that whole paradigm work out when we are tens of digits above average all over the world?
How's those coal rollers doing today?

[CrispyQ]

6. These charts were posted this weekend.

I guess some folks in the UK were claiming this heat wave isn't any different than the heat wave of 1976. Stupid fools.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Who did the pictorials? Excellent visual (albeit very depressing)

[CrispyQ]

15. IDK. Here's the DU original post, though.

https://democraticunderground.com/1127154540

[Evolve Dammit]

17. I'd feel more confident if it were a NOAA graphic. Course climate change deniers will deny all.

[CrispyQ]

18. There are some charts at these links, not quite as dramatic, but still good.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures

[Evolve Dammit]

43. good info. Thanks

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Looks like the maps are from NASA (Goddard Institute)

See https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/

The graphic below that uses 'HadCRUT5' data - the Hadley Centre at the UK Climate Research Unit, created by a UK Met Office scientist:

https://twitter.com/neilrkaye

and as used by the World Meteorological Organization:

Link to tweet

[Evolve Dammit]

42. thanks!

[OnlinePoker]

24. The heat wave in 76 lasted for weeks. This is 2 days.

Bad heat, but not for as long a period and low humidity. This was every summer where I grew up in southern BC (and we didn't have AC back then, either).

[AllyCat]

32. Are you saying we need to wait for 2 weeks before we do anything including complain?

When we look at the maps for the whole world in '76, it didn't look like the map now. So it makes sense to look at the whole world. I sit here in Wisco where we have had little rain the last 4 weeks and temps every day in the 80s-90s. We had very little snow this past winter. I think I shoveled 3 times.

This is not normal. 2 days. 2 weeks.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. Coolest spot: San Francisco

[Sympthsical]

10. I am freezing this morning

I need to walk to gym in a minute, and I don't want to go out there. Windy, too.

Still, I'll take it over everywhere else.

[kimbutgar]

23. Yesterday went out and brought a jacket just in case

Walked a few feet and returned to my car for my jacket.

Very chilly this Morning also. Watching the news last night I realized I was lucky I lived in SF.

[Auggie]

34. And portions of the Bay Area (closest to the water)

[NutmegYankee]

37. "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Mark Twain.

[EYESORE 9001]

39. Yep. I remember reading that.

I thought it was hyperbole until I visited SF in June and went for a stroll in Golden Gate Park. The fog rolled in, more like cumulus clouds at park elevation, and I actually got chilled to the bone.

[Jerry2144]

8. Going to be hot here in Vegas

Near 110. Had monsoons storms last couple days so humidity will be elevated today until all that moisture clears out.

[Siwsan]

9. My brother is driving back from California through that mess

He left Humboldt County yesterday afternoon and expects to be to Salt Lake City this morning. There's just no relief in that map, anywhere along his route back to Michigan.

[pnwmom]

12. Strange graphics, though, with the same red color for 80's temps and 90's. nt

[GusBob]

41. kinda misleading to me

most of the country is not on fire

Curious

[question everything]

13. Remember to add ice cubes into the bird baths. And...

would many who moved to Texas and Arizona and Florida will move back to the blue states?

[yellowdogintexas]

26. On that map Florida is cooler than Texas

[MuseRider]

14. Apparently the middle

of the country is going to be much worse next week. I have been seeing temps predicted in the 117 range up in OK and KS.

[Marius25]

16. The difference is we have AC everywhere

Europe doesn't. Most homes in Europe are built to stay warm from the cold, not to cool down from the heat.

[wnylib]

19. So far, we have had normal summer temps

in western NY, in the 70s and 80s. A lot of sun and little rain, which is unusual here. Had some rain yesterday and overnight, though. Currently 76. High projected to be 83 today.

[Paul Eeez]

20. It's Coming

No need to worry about that!

[geardaddy]

21. And for some reason San Fran

is only 65 F for a high?

[Old Crank]

35. San Francicso

Is surrounded on 3 sides by water. When it is hot in the Central valley, Redding to Bakersfield, this pulls colder air, and fo, in off the Pacific. This happens up the north coast. It is where the old saying came from. The coldest winter I ever had was the summer in San Francisco.

[geardaddy]

36. Thanks for the explanation!

[Wednesdays]

22. Oklahoma City is going to have the hottest day in at least 10 years today

Coming close to the all-time high temperature.

[Torchlight]

25. North central Texas is on pace to meet/exceed many of our records.

Highest lows, highest highs, number of 100+ degree days, extreme drought, etc. I hear fewer and fewer talk about gas, trading that in for ragging on our electric bills.

From my small chair, there's not a lot of confidence with Gov. 'Grayout' Abbott this summer.

[TxGuitar]

27. Scorchio!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

28. On a positive note, that is NOT our political map.

KY.........

[JCMach1]

29. 109 in Dallas today, 110 would touch ATH + red flag fire warning

109 yesterday as well.

[Warpy]

31. This has been happening year after year

Big heat dome builds over Texas, shuts off the monsoon rains.

Farmers are hurting a lot. Elephant Butte Reservoir is down to 5.7% capacity and that's where a lot of farmers in both NM and Texas draw their water. The Rio Grande is a dry river bed for miles.

[FakeNoose]

33. I feel very fortunate to be living in southwestern Pennsylvania

We get plenty of rain here, and the daily high temperature rarely gets into the 90's. Normally the afternoon highs are in the 80's and it will mostly cool down at night. Yes we have humidity, but cloudy days are common here, even when there's no rain.

I'm not kidding, my house stays cool during summer most of the time. Surrounding trees help a lot, too. There have been many summers when I never used my window air-conditioner. I have a unit in my bedroom window but I rarely need it. Windows open and circulating fans are almost always enough to keep my house comfortable.

The worst "drought" I can remember here was in 1988, we had about 6 weeks of no rain from the end of June to the first week of August. Normally it will rain once or twice per week. Winters aren't bad either - ice and snow of course, but not many big storms and almost no blizzards. Anyone who is looking for an affordable place to live with mostly comfortable climate, consider Pittsburgh!

[Emile]

38. Hurricane season just around the corner.

[GusBob]

40. ? that chart is very misleading it seems

with the hot red graphics

I see most of the country has normal summer temps, some places are cooler than normal actually

our forecast is for much cooler temps for the next 10 days, 70's/80 's, and its usually high 90's to 100 this time of year