Mastodawn

Yet again, another record-breaking heatwave is arriving well outside of the typical season. This time impacting the UK and other parts of western Europe with a strong upper-level ridge.

Here's how climate change is making that heat more likely (via Climate Central: https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index):

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Zack Labe

Here is our latest alert on this extreme event: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert?#record-breaking-heat-wave-across-western-europe-fueled-by-climate-change

Climate Shift Index Alerts | Climate Central

Climate Central issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around the world that was made more likely by human-caused climate change.

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Kpl Klink 3d ago

@ZLabe Very timely as a post. Understanding the mechanics of feedbacks may be interesting too. As an analogy, I had an interesting conversation with a group of medical professionals recently about our planet being a dynamical system much like the body. It readily took.