Another HOT Day Is Forecast For Today
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
United States
July 24, 2016 8:36am CST
Every day this week has been VERY hot and humid here in Virginia and other states on the east coast. I have been staying in the house with the A/C on and ceiling fans turning in every room.
I think that this has been the hottest week we have had so far this summer, but I think that it could get worse. And this hot weather has brought on several bad storms. Trees down everywhere and power outages too.
Extremes in the weather seem to be more and more common. I really don’t ever remember the weather being so hot in the summer or cold and snowy in the winter. Nor, do I remember so many floods and forest fires and earthquakes. Every day it seems as if there is some weather related BAD news.
Some people say that it’s just because we have better news coverage, that we hear about all these things, but I disagree. The news might have been slower reaching us than it is now, but we eventually would hear about such things.
What do you think?
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4 responses
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
24 Jul 16
'tis been a mix 'f 'xtremes 'cross the globe't seems. we're enjoyin' only bein' 98 degrees here today. june's our 'normal' hottest month, but july's been'n oven fueled by hot winds 'n no moisture.
the earth changes constant, mother nature seems to go through cycles'f tryin' to keep'p with the damages caused by mankind.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
24 Jul 16
The weather is mostly controlled by the jet stream and the jet stream has been affected by human activity.
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
24 Jul 16
I have heard of more storms lately than ever before as well.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
24 Jul 16
The storms here in Virginia this past month have been really bad. Mostly trees coming down on houses, garages, and vehicles and power outages.
@GardenGerty (169490)
• United States
24 Jul 16
I think that the earthquakes in my part of the country are due to fracking and due to the fact that Oklahoma receives all the water that is waste water from that process.They share the earthquakes with us in Kansas. I do remember snow as late as May in Oklahoma. I do agree it has been hot this week. It also was very hot here the second week in June. We were on vacation, but my sister stayed in my house and coold not keep cool enough. We have a very slight cooling trend for the upcoming week and the forecast is lots of rain possibilities.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
24 Jul 16
Yes, I have written a couple articles here on myLot about fracking. I have a friend who lives in OK and he realizes what it going on there very well.
It is really HOT here again today. I have just been staying inside. I moved my car into a shaded area in the driveway this afternoon.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jul 16
It's hot here in the LA area and there have been wildfires. Not big ones but everything is a dry tinderbox.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
24 Jul 16
The heat is almost unbearable. Someone said that the average daily temperature in Ethiopia was 105 F. I can't imagine that. Do you suppose that is true?
