The climate crisis brings out the worst in Earth's weather.

People often find solace in the idea that all this bad news about weather and climate can be found in history books. There is some solace in that because at least we know how to be somewhat resilient to it. But, the climate crisis is different in that this bad news is repeating itself over and over while the stratosphere shrinks as it mixes ever more violently with the troposphere. There is nothing but bad news. The storms are more violent and the clear skies bring hotter temperatures. Is there any reason to doubt that most fires are in the western USA and Alaska?

July 11, 2021
By Kathryn Prociv

Current Large Incidents (click here)

On Friday, Death Valley, California, hit 130 degrees. (click here)

On Saturday, Las Vegas tied its hottest temperature, hitting 117 degrees, and Utah also tied its statewide record, hitting 117 in St. George.

On Sunday morning, nearly 30 million people remained under heat alerts across several Western states, where temperatures were forecast again soar to 10 to 20 degrees above average.

Las Vegas was forecast again to climb to near 117 degrees. If that happened for the second time in a row, it would be the first time in recorded history.

And all eyes were on Death Valley to see whether it would hit 130 degrees again for the second time in three days, or perhaps higher.

Death Valley is considered the hottest place in the world — it hit 134 degrees back in 1913. No reliable weather station has recorded a hotter temperature on Earth....

The video below was released July 9, 2021.