Thursday, May 30, 2019

Heat wave tightens grip on Southeast US as dozens of high temperature records fall

By Kristina Pydynowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist


Residents will have to continue taking the necessary precautions to avoid heat-related illnesses as record-breaking heat holds firm across the southeastern United States into Thursday.
Dozens of record highs have fallen amid the heat wave since it began late last week.
Saturday's high of 100 F at Savannah, Georgia, tied the record for the earliest occurrence of triple-digit heat in the city. On Sunday, the city set an all-time record high for May as the mercury soared to 102.
Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina, reached 100 for the first time ever in May on Sunday. 
Tuesday record highs

Wednesday marked the fourth-consecutive day of temperatures near the century mark in Charleston. A high in the mid-80s is more common this time of year.
On Thursday, the intense heat will maintain a firm grip on areas east of the Appalachian Mountains as the heat is trimmed to the west.
Temperatures are set to soar into the 90s from Virginia to Florida. Highs near or above the century mark will once again bake Columbia, South Carolina; Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; and Jacksonville, Florida.
Along the northern fringe of the heat, severe thunderstorms will once again target parts of the mid-Atlantic and upper Ohio Valley on Thursday.
SE heat May 29

"AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperatures above 100 F will remain common throughout the Southeast due to sunshine and moderate humidity levels on Thursday," according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Max Vido.
"Such values can put residents, especially older adults and children, at risk for heat exhaustion and heatstroke," he said.
Hot cars May 26

Amid the heat, residents are reminded to never leave children or pets in a sealed vehicle without air conditioning. Heat can rise to deadly levels in these vehicles in just a short amount of time.
Nine children have died due to vehicular heatstroke deaths so far this year (through May 24), according to NoHeatStroke.org.
Heat relief May 28

With the high heat in place, residents will have to use care with campfires, coals from grills and fireworks to avoid igniting new brush fires.
On Tuesday, lightning from an isolated cluster of thunderstorms sparked four wildfires near Jacksonville.

The stagnant weather pattern can trap smoke from any brush fires or pollutants in the urban areas, leading to poor air quality.
Download the free AccuWeather app to see expected high temperatures in your community. Keep checking back for updates on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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Toure Taylor
There are 6 active wildfires burning a total of "666.1" acres??? Thats bad luck.
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Eddy N Debbie Kale
i love it when they say 'first time EVER.' Ever? Really? How do you know?
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Linda Bell-Dovey
Political scientist weather-people are drama queens. on top of being Progressives.
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Michael Pannoni
Part of the reason why the Midwest is suffering from repeated severe weather and flooding. At least they don't have to worry about tornadoes or grapefruit-sized hail (for now), but this heat along with the unseasonably chilly weather in the west is the perfect recipe for the damage out there.
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Ray W Smith
It suppose to be hot in summer, and cold in winter
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son
Record heat in the SouthEast. Certainly not due to fossil fuels because climate change is a hoax. Keep voting for Republican climate deniers. We can have 100 degree days all summer. You're gonna love it.
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Kyle Gardiner
Yours is the view of a leftist simpleton dupe. Fake science is behind the failed scam of global warming. Now go to your safe space where the orange man cant hurt you!
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Nancy Silcox
Aren't you one of the same people who, during the polar vortex when it was pointed out that it was the coldest temperature in decades, sneered that people don't know the difference between weather and climate?
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Jane Parx
Broke records from 100 years ago by a degree, because even before the industrial revolution man was screwing up the climate by exhaling.
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TB Bryceson
Circa 12,000 yrs ago: Two woolly mammoths see a group of primitive people gathered around a campfire they'd made. One mammoth says to the other mammoth, "If those two-legged creatures keep on making fires like that, they're going to melt all the glaciers and we'll all go extinct!" Smart mammoth, huh?
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Brian Coady
Kyle Gardiner Yep. All those climate scientists, who spent years in advanced studies, have all conspired to produce the most cunning and deceptive studies that also happen to be corroborated by dramatic physical manifestations. And exactlyd why have this done this???

Of course you believe the scientists when they develop up life-saving medicines, or produce accurate storm warnings.

TB Bryceson
Brian Coady, the "dramatic physical manifestations" you mention are often data that has been "scientifically" manipulated to conform to the geopolitical mantra of "man-made climate change". When raw data does not support this theme, it is changed to make it fit, as with the newest USDA Zone map, which was originally produced with properly gathered data, but rejected twice until the data was skewed to show the politically correct theme.

Why scientists would do this, is the reason for most deceptive practices--profit. There are many grants provided for studies which support "man-made climate change", but few are offered to those which investigate other reasons for Earth's climate change, such as occurances within the solar system that may be affecting Earth's weather. (Jupiter's great storm, hundreds of years old, is now rapidly diminishing and breaking up--we caused that, too?) Earth has enjoyed an unusually long period of interglacial warmth; that's changing, as is the natural cycle.
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TB Bryceson
Brian Coady, many of those "life saving medicines" you mention that scientists have developed have often been shown to be more harmful than the conditions they are meant to treat, while those same scientists ignore, and even actively suppress more simple and proven treatments simply because they cannot be patented, owned and monopolized for financial gain.

Mainstream science is no different than any other business; the ultimate goal behind scientific companies and the programs they support is money and power, and "man-made climate change" is just another face of science for profit and power. There are many sources of factual scientific data that show other naturally occurring cycles that affect Earth's climate, yet mainstream science ignores the proven corolations shown by these studies and condemns those who bring these facts and relationships to light, just as scientists with revolutionary but more accurate theories have been suppressed and ridiculed for centuries.
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George Martin
Maybe their silly stories would actually be relavent if they used the actual temperatures, you know...the ones that thermostats read, instead of their Acuweather UnRealFeel silliness.
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Brian Coady
And yet they always communicate both the ambient and the "feels like" temperatures and you are free to disregard either.
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Mark Tate
Just an early summer in the south,no biggie.
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Bonita Love
True, seems like August weather.
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Clare Charlotte Leiva Delval
Will never buy matusalem rum...
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Michael Stephens
Just so the uninformed are aware of it, this is weather news from accuWEATHER, not climate news.
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Art Anderson
Right. Daily temperature fluctuations are weather, not climate. But it is pretty scary how the earth's temperature has increased every month during the last 80 years - accelerating out-of-control recently. http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/spirals/
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Jane Parx
Art Anderson -- Have a look at when they start the measuring, just before the end of the little ice age. Scientists are shocked, shocked I tell you, that the Earth has actually warmed since an ice age ended. Everyone knows the end of an ice age is marked by more cooling, it's obvious that man has caused this!
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Linda Bell-Dovey
Jane Parx Right! 15,000 years ago there was a nearly mile high glacier front just 50 miles north of Harrisburg PA. THAT'S a whole lot of warming since then.....and man did NOT create that. A little more warming and then things will go colder again, man or no man. It;'s just the way weather is on this Planet until the sun goes boom--actually implodes!
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Mark Johnson
How hot is it? It got so hot in my corn field yesterday that the kernels on the ears of corn started popping into popcorn. With all that popcorn a flyin through the air, my poor mule thought it was snowing and he froze to death before I could get him back to the barn!!
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Max Roberts
Too funny.
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Jim Busse
BFD. So it is hot. Out here in LA it is cold. 60s Memorial day pool not even opened. Saves a lot of filtering.
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Mike Heuer
Same here in Las Vegas. In fact, we are loving this extended break from the heat. NOt one 100-degree day in May, and very few above 90. That means summer heat won't last more than 3 months this year.
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Jim Busse
Mike Heuer It has been a while but I think I remember in the mid 70's when this happened in your area. That same year there were huge rainstorms during the monsoon. Flooding etc. What a mess. These have been going on for years. Let's hope this one is different. There has been lots of flood planning in the last 50 years
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Kevin Richards
and yet Colorado just had snow for the first time in May in 40 years. But...but...global warming....
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Rudolf Clausius
Dont be obtuse Kevin. The unstatble artic air mass due to rising temperatures in the artic are causing shifts in the jet stream and more extream weather events.
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Jim Busse
Rudolf Clausius dream on. Weather changes on timetables you can't comprehend. Hot cold warm cool wind calm rain dry. That is life. Nothing we do affects it outside of small areas. If it is hot blame it on Trump/s back out from the paris accord. If it is cold warm cool wind, dry, rain snow sleet say the same. You people are nuts.
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Carol Mouser
Rudolf Clausius you are nuts
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Michael Stephens
Rudolf Clausius Yes, that does cause WEATHER changes.
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Mike Heuer
Rudolf Clausius , that's one hackneyed explanation with no basis in fact.
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Chris Gordon
Mike Heuer would love to hear where you get your facts. Carol Mouser on what grounds is Rudolf, who is simply stating scientific consensous, nuts? Kevin Richards, its people who think as you do that cause me concern for this planet's future. For all you "climate deniers" here I have a question, if you went to see 100 doctors for tests and 97 of them told you that you had cancer would you stick to your conviction that you didnt have cancer and do nothing about it? How is it that you somehow think you know more about the worlds climate and the impacts we are having than 97% of the people who's profession it is to study the worlds climate? Also Kevin, you clearly don't understand global warming or its impacts if you think that it means that everywhere will have hot weather all the time now.
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Fatoush Moonstar
Weather in Colorado is not global weather/warming. The earth is getting warmer.
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Keith Cooper
Rudolf Clausius Don't waste your breath on these climate deniers...not worth the worry.
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Doug Day
Of course this may have happened before, but this is unprecedented!
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Kevin Richards
re-read your sentence...I don't think you get what "unprecendented" means.
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Kevin Waddill
I'm fairly sure Doug meant to be facetious. At least I hope so lol.
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Jennifer Thompson
Remind me of 88. Hot, hot, hot. We moved here from Flint Michigan to Augusta Georgia. I guess it's welcome to the deep South.
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