I mean, we should have seen this coming from the climate cult media, right?
Extreme heat on Independence Day will be America’s new normal, experts say
When Thomas Jefferson measured the temperature on July 4, 1776, the high was 76 degrees Fahrenheit in Philadelphia. Two hundred and fifty years later, millions of people across the eastern half of the U.S. were under extreme heat warnings as they celebrated that anniversary.
The heat dome that settled over the Midwest and Atlantic coast then gave way to multiple rounds of severe storms and flash flooding, according to the National Weather Service.
This extreme weather did not come as a surprise, and many cities across the country were prepared: Independence Day parades in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were canceled, while Boston did not open access to its annual fireworks event until 4 p.m.
1776 was deep in the Little Ice Age, so, of course it was much cooler. Did they also have an extreme El Nino? Did they have a massive Urban Heat Island effect?
Extreme heat could be a mark of many Independence Days in the future, experts say. Climate change, caused primarily by burning fossil fuels, is making heat waves hotter and longer. The average number of heat waves in the U.S. has doubled since the 1980s.
“It’s not an anomaly. It’s a preview,” said Michael Rawlins, associate director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
