Mastodawn

"...The shrinking Arctic sea ice was announced Thursday as temperatures broke March heat records across the United States, all over Mexico, in Australia, across Northern Africa and through parts of Northern Europe. Climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera, who tracks extreme temperatures, called the extreme March temperatures “by far the most extreme heat event in world climatic history..."

#heatwaves #heatwave #climate

Dragofix 1d ago

Warming coastal waters emerge as primary driver of large-scale humid heat waves https://phys.org/news/2026-03-coastal-emerge-primary-driver-large.html

#coast #environment #waters #heat #heatwave #heatwaves

Warming coastal waters emerge as primary driver of large-scale humid heat waves

Rising sea surface temperatures in coastal waters are driving 50 to 64 percent of the increase in large-scale humid heat waves, according to new research. The study, from researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Princeton University and Sun Yat-sen University, implies that coastal sea surface temperatures could be a potential early warning indicator for widespread humid heat extremes. The paper is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Phys.org

AI6YR Ben 1d ago

Heatwaves mentioned as part of what is destroying a tradition of flying kits in India.

BBC: Thousands of kites once filled the skies above India's cities. Today the tradition is dying out

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260326-kites-vanish-from-the-skies-above-indias-cities

#kites #heatwaves #climateemergency

Thousands of kites once filled the skies above India's cities. Today the tradition is dying out

Recent heatwaves and a number of deaths due to illegal kite strings have seen many abandoning the once popular pastime.

BBC

DaLetra 1d ago

Confira a letra da música “Heat Waves” de Glass Animals
#GlassAnimals #HeatWaves
https://daletra.com.br/glass-animals/letra/heat-waves.html

Headlines Africa 3d ago

Africa: Heatwaves Will Be Worst for Rural Parts of Africa - New Model Shows Tens of Millions Face Dangerous Warming By 2100: [The Conversation Africa] Ask people where heatwaves hit hardest and most will probably say cities, which trap heat in concrete and metal and generate warmth from traffic and industry. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRj7d9 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Heatwaves #Africa #RuralDevelopment

DoomsdaysCW 4d ago

Record-smashing heat spreads: 'Basically the entire US is going to be hot'

by SETH BORENSTEIN, March 23, 2026

"After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the U.S. as a whole, the gigantic #HeatDome that's baked the Southwest is creeping eastward and may end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, meteorologists and weather historians said.

"And it's not going away for awhile, maybe not till the middle of the next week as April starts, said meteorologist Gregg Gallina of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center."

[..]

"The physical area of this heat wave likely dwarfs two other historic heat waves — one in 2012 in the Upper Midwest and Northeast and another in 2021 in the Pacific Northwest — according to weather historian Chris Burt, author of the book '#ExtremeWeather.' It may not be as large as the #DustBowl #HeatWaves of 1936, but that was a series of heat waves over two months during summer, not a single big event like now, Burt said."

#USWx #Heatwave #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

MSN

The USA Potato 4d ago

Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest

Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.

https://murica.website/2026/03/climate-fueled-heat-waves-are-creating-a-water-crisis-in-the-southwest/

Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest – The USA Potato

PIK_climate 4d ago

🌊 As oceans warm, risks to human health increase. A new study shows that warming coastal waters are a key driver of the rise in large-scale humid #heatwaves.
Analysing climate data from 1982 to 2023, researchers uncovered strong land-ocean linkages: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/warming-coastal-waters-primary-driver-of-large-scale-humid-heatwaves

Huopa 5d ago

.. and so our 2026 #heatwaves begin
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-u-s-heat-wave-smashes-all-time-hottest-march-temperature-record/

.. and for #Germany the modelling shows extreme summer heat too
https://www.express.de/panorama/wetter-hammer-2026-experte-warnt-vor-extrem-sommer-mit-hitzewellen-und-unwettern-1249781

#climateChange

Extreme U.S. heat wave smashes all-time hottest March temperature record

An astoundingly strong heat wave is not just setting records across the western U.S.—it’s pulverizing them

Scientific American

AI6YR Ben 5d ago

NWS Los Angeles "OF NOTE"

"This has be a phenomenally warm month. Using the forecasted high
temperatures for DTLA for today (the 23rd) to the 31st along with
the max temps that have already occurred, the DTLA average max
temp for the month would be 83.5 degrees. This would handily
eclipse the previous record holders:

79.1 degrees in 2015
76.7 degrees in 2017
76.0 degrees in 1931
75.8 degrees in 1934
75.7 degrees in 1959"

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=LOX&issuedby=LOX&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1

#climateemergency #LosAngeles #CAwx #heatwaves