'Heat Dome' Will Make Parts of U.S. Feel Like 115 Degrees

[mfcorey1]

A heat alert grew Wednesday to include parts of 21 states as a "heat dome" is expected hover over much of the nation later this week, with some places forecast to reach up to a dangerous 115 degrees.

The sizzling heat index — a measure of how hot it feels when humidity is factored in with the actual air temperature — will first hit parts of the central U.S. during the latter half of the week and will then spread toward the Northeast and mid-Atlantic late this week into the weekend, according to weather.com.

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The intense weather is the result of an atmospheric phenomenon called a heat dome — a ridge, or high-pressure system, that traps hot air underneath it — creating unusually hot and humid conditions.

Heat alerts had been issued for more than a dozen states from Louisiana to Minnesota. Heat advisories were extended to cover parts of Michigan, Indiana and northwest Ohio, and Kentucky, and in larger areas of states already under watch. Excessive heat warnings were in place for all of Iowa and large parts of Nebraska, the Dakotas and Illinois.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/heat-dome-will-make-parts-of-us-feel-like-115-degrees/ar-BBuyVMn?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[Lilyhoney]

1. Supposed to be 110 here in Madison, WI

At 2:00 this afternoon. Crazy hot. But atleast the severe storm missed us this morning.

[shraby]

4. I'm by Lake Michigan in Manitowoc co., and am about to put a sweatshirt on..it's chilly here.

The storm has gone through but it's still raining pretty good.

[Hortensis]

12. Sounds nice. Georgia feels like like warm cream soup.

Our first summer here I felt like I should be able to put my hand up and stir the humidity, it was so heavy and tangible. You do get used to it, though. Our big porch is on the east side of the house with two overhead fans, and most summer mornings lounging there is pretty pleasant--until the sun tops the big hickory and the roof ridge.

Wonder how it'll affect our convention. Hot temperatures aren't good for tempers, and the only time people are going to want to be outside is early and evenings.

[hobbit709]

2. That's what we call August here in TX.

[Lochloosa]

3. And Florida

[ananda]

7. It will be around 100 here for the rest of July ..

Indoor weather for sure.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. I'm dreading this. I don't have a/c.

[Calculating]

6. Climate change isn't real though

The people at the republican convection told me so....

[Joe the Revelator]

18. and weather isn't climate change.

Do be nutty like they are when it snows in January.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. "Heat dome" "Polar vortex"

Fucksake.

[RapSoDee]

9. And the freaking Republicans still claim Climate Change is a hoax

Republicans take bullshit lies way beyond the danger zone. They are going to take us, and their own children, down with them with their evil denial of factual, sizzling reality.

[Joe the Revelator]

19. Oy.....this is weather. Not climate change.

Climate change is real and probably man made, but don't make the same goofy mistakes they make when it snows in January and confuse climate change with weather.

[RapSoDee]

20. Yes, of course it's weather

...it's also likely that this July is month #15 coming after a stunning, unprecedented 14 consecutive months of record high temperatures. So while it's accurate to say it's weather, it's also accurate to say it's weather that is part of a massive and dangerous climate change pattern that is now well underway (according to the vast majority of climate scientists).

NASA: Hottest June on record continues 14-month global heat wave

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/weather/hottest-june-record-world/

[trotsky]

10. Life in Minnesota

January:




July:

[Takket]

11. 184 degree swing in Brainerd. Nice!

[trotsky]

13. Granted, the "feels like" temp makes it look worse.

Wind chill especially. I mean the actual air temp that day was probably "only" about -20F.

[GummyBearz]

14. Everyone needs 2 closets with a swing like that

yikes

[smirkymonkey]

15. Ugh! Both extremes are unbearable!

How can you stand it? Even though it's "Feels Like" it's still awful. I thought we had extremes in the Northeast, but it's nothing like that!

[trotsky]

16. I guess because neither extreme sticks around that long.

This current heat wave is supposed to last all of 2-1/2 days.

[KittyWampus]

17. Stay hydrated my friends!

[Angleae]

21. And here in Puget Sound it's expected to be in the upper 60s/low 70s for the next week.

I love the weather here. Not too hot. Not too cold. Just have to put up with perpetual rain (it's expected tomorrow).