2023 progressing towards hot

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Posting this also here in the open to all news forum.

In Texas, the Southern U.S. and Mexico, a three-week heat wave has gripped the region with temperature records falling for days in a row. Extreme heat has also hit India, China and Canada, where widespread wildfires are burning.

"Most of the world's population has experienced record-breaking heat in recent days," says Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184677011/heat-wave-climate-change-el-nino-texas

Compared to long term averages for this day of the year, you can see many very populated regions in elevated temperatures compared to a average for June 29th. A white color means the temperature is right at average for June 29th for that location. Blue color means the local temperature at a location is below the average for June 29th. Red colors indicate above average at a location for June 29th.

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Europe, Japan, much of China, Southern India, and also in the U.S. a current heat wave in the South and middle of the U.S., expanding some.

Notably today a significant portion of permafrost tundra areas in the northern hemisphere are well above average temperature for June 29th, so permafrost melt this summer will be interesting to monitor.

 

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The heat is making squirrels 'sploot' — a goofy act that signals something serious​

• Splooting is behavior some animals use to cool their body temperature. Squirrels are finding cool surfaces and lying on their stomachs, legs spread, to cool off.
• When humans are hot, sweating cools us down. But animals that can't sweat have to resort to other behaviors to cool off. Dogs pant. Birds dunk themselves in water. And squirrels sploot.
• Carlos Botero, an associate professor of integrative biology at University of Texas at Austin, says "the temperatures we're experiencing right now are a little bit beyond the typical ability of this animal to withstand."
• Temperatures in Austin have blazed past previous records. The heat index values, or "feels-like temperature," reached their highest ever at 118 degrees. And experts say this is not normal.
• Animal physiologist Andrea Rummel, an incoming assistant professor of biosciences at Rice University, says splooting is likely enough to keep squirrels cool for now. But it might not be if temperatures continue to rise, she says, because "there's only so much one avenue of heat loss can do."

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1185092056/squirrels-splooting-heat-wave-climate-change?ft=nprml&f=1167

 

[wing2000]

Notably today a significant portion of permafrost tundra areas in the northern hemisphere are well above average temperature for June 29th, so permafrost melt this summer will be interesting to monitor.

The abnormally hot temperatures at the poles and across Northern Siberia and Canada is disconcerting.

 

[Always in His Presence]

check the date on the lower left. It is ALWAYS hot in OK during the summer