Publication Date January 12, 2022 | Climate Nexus Hot News

It's Getting Hot In Here, Also Cold Over There, And Sometimes Both In the Same Places

Carlos Ramos hands out bottles of water and sack lunches on Monday at a hydration station in front of the Union Gospel Mission in Seattle. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press)
Carlos Ramos hands out bottles of water and sack lunches on Monday at a hydration station in front of the Union Gospel Mission in Seattle. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press)

A surge in all-time temperature records across the U.S. in 2021 is a clear indicator of climate change, the New York Times reports. More all-time temperature records were broken last year than in any year since 1994 and 8.3% of all U.S. weather stations recorded a record high temperature, the most since at least 1948. “We do not live in a stable climate now,” Robert Rohde, lead scientist at Berkeley Earth, told the Times. That instability led to extreme temperatures in regions unprepared for it — like extreme heat in the Pacific Northwest and extreme cold in Texas — with deadly results.

(New York Times $; Climate Signals background: Extreme heat and heatwavesLarge scale global circulation changeFeb. 2021 Polar Vortex breakdown)

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