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

After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the U.S. as a whole, the gigantic heat dome 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.

“Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot,” Gallina said Monday. “The area of record temperatures is extremely large. That’s the thing that’s really bizarre.”

The heat dome will move on by late next week, Masters said: “We just have to give it time.”

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

A huge heat dome is spreading across the United States and it is shattering March temperature records.

apnews.com

 

[Tall Timbers]

I've been enjoying these higher March temperatures.

 

[Baby Yoda]

Still chilly here in MD, but we will at least get to 70 this afternoon. This weekend, back in the 50s.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

LOL so you guys are getting what's an average summer down here

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

Hmm seems like the world is gonna cop the heat at the same time from October - December later this year due to a "Super El Nino"

Super El Niño could form within months, new forecasts suggest​

New forecasts suggest super El Niño could form within months

New forecasting suggests a rare super El Niño could form within months, potentially causing extreme weathe...

www.9news.com.au

 

[1LoverofGod]

Heat wave smashes 4,000 records; hottest March in 7 states​

During the unprecedented mid-March heat wave in the central and western United States, more than 4,000 daily records and more than 1,700 monthly records were broken at weather stations across the West. Seven states preliminarily set their highest March temperatures ever.

NOAA's NCEI says that 4,310 weather stations across the West set daily record high temperatures, and 1,746 highest March temperatures on record between March 18 and March 22, and data continues to pour in. For the month, over 7,000 daily and nearly 2,000 monthly records have been set.

In 30 of those towns, weather station records go back more than 100 years, including Winnemucca (149 years) and Elko (136 years) in Nevada, as well as Eureka in California (138 years).

To put it another way, heat of this magnitude in March that is even close to this hasn't happened in Nevada since at least the 1880s, when there were only 38 states, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, and Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial telephone.

The record-setting numbers will increase, as the NOAA data was only available through March 19, and the heat wave is ongoing, nearly a week later.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/heat-wave-smashes-4000-records-hottest-march-in-7-states/1876492

 

[Supertonman20]

You guys are talking about Heatwave that Smashes 4,000 records; hottest March in 7 states? That's average summer temperatures we could have!

 

[Work4Peanuts]

For our non-USA members saying that these are typical summer temperatures, I would like to point out that it's not summer here, yet. We're barely into spring, and our summer temperatures usually go much higher. I'm not personally uncomfortable in these temperatures, and I don't think many around here are, but it's concerning. If it's this hot now, what's it going to be like when it's finally summer?

Also, the insects have awakened (read: parasites, like ticks) and snakes are out. I usually have a little lead time to put in the garden, before I have to start using deet and watching where I put my feet.

 

[Tall Timbers]

We're barely into spring, and our summer temperatures usually go much higher.

It'll be interesting to see how summer temps end up. They may not necessarily be any higher than usual, though I guess every place could end up with a different experience...

 

[Work4Peanuts]

It'll be interesting to see how summer temps end up. They may not necessarily be any higher than usual, though I guess every place could end up with a different experience...

This is the time of year we usually get rain, before it dries up in summer, and it has been so dry. We got some reprieve this last week with some rain. @Ronnie has posted a thread in prayer requests about fire weather right now in Lousiana. That's the state just south of us. We're still under a burn ban here, even with the rain last week. With all the tornadoes, we have so many downed trees around here. I'm praying God's mercy on TX, OK, AR, MO, and LA. Pray for rain, please.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Pray for rain, please.

Eastern Wyoming is pretty dry right now. Instead of the typical 60 inches of snow I think we got less than 10 all winter (so far). I guess Nebraska already burned.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

You guys are talking about Heatwave that Smashes 4,000 records; hottest March in 7 states? That's average summer temperatures we could have!

yeah in Australia the temperatures average between 28 degrees (82.4 farenheit) and 39 degrees (102 farenheit) during summer.

We also on average are guranteed to get 1 -2 weeks of 40 +(104 degrees) temps as well