The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😜
Here is a new feature for this blog, which I will add daily. This is the latest inciteful Green News Report from my friends Desi Doyen and Brad Friedman at Progressive Voices. Hit ‘continue reading,’ listen, then hit return to see my daily topics:
Main Topic: Dangerous North African Heat Dome Will Build into Europe Next week
Dear Diary. North African countries during summer are typically quite hot since most of their territory lies in the Sahara Desert. Yet temperatures rarely get over 50°C/122°F at any one location. That level of heat is now being experienced in several countries due to a strong heat dome building over North Africa:
That system will build to near 600 decameters next week:
What’s worse is that the heat dome will move into Europe next week, mainly affecting Spain, France and Portugal, three countries already being devastated by thousands of heat related deaths and wildfires:
A nose of extreme heat will also move northeast into Germany and Scandinavia as show by the above Pivotal Weather chart.
I’m going to dub this episode Heatwave Apep – For the Egyptian serpent god of chaos, often considered a dragon-like embodiment of evil.
Here is more on major Heatwave Apep, which is continuing to build in North Africa from Arab Weather:
A severe heatwave is affecting four Arab countries, with temperatures reaching 50 degrees Celsius.
Arab Weather – The latest outputs of weather models indicate that the impact of the heat dome will increase during the coming days, with its impact reaching its peak towards the end of the week, imposing extremely hot weather conditions on large parts of North Africa and the western Mediterranean.
The heat dome intensifies, pushing an extremely hot air mass towards the region.
The heat dome is expected to gradually intensify and strengthen over the coming days, leading to a surge of extremely hot and dry desert air towards the Maghreb countries. Temperatures are expected to reach record levels in many inland areas, potentially approaching or exceeding 50 degrees Celsius locally, particularly in:
* The western and interior parts of Algeria.
* Large areas of Tunisia.
Northwest Libya.
* The interior regions of Morocco.
Meanwhile, extremely hot weather extends to large parts of the western Mediterranean, with a noticeable rise in temperatures compared to their usual averages for this time of year.
An exceptional heat wave increases the risk of fires.
This heat wave comes amid severe drought affecting large parts of the region, which increases the likelihood of forest and woodland fires breaking out and spreading, especially with low humidity and strong local winds at certain times.
Some areas have already begun recording large fires in the vegetation cover, amid expectations that the intense heat during the coming days will increase the pressure on firefighting teams and raise the risk of the fires spreading.
Recommendations as the heat wave intensifies
It is advised to avoid direct exposure to sunlight during midday and afternoon hours, to drink plenty of fluids, and not to leave children or the elderly inside closed vehicles, in addition to exercising extreme caution when in forested or agricultural areas, due to the high risk of fires breaking out as the heat dome continues to intensify.
And God knows best.
Here are some “ETs” recorded from around the U.S. the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
Here is More Climate News from Saturday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)