What’s a Heat Dome? The Scary Weather Phenomenon Is Making Things Hotter
It has already been a hot summer for many areas. As much as the heat here in the north of New York made me cooperate inside with the scraping of the air conditioner, it is nothing compared to the other parts of the United States now affected by one of the most bizarre weather models of summer: the Dome of heat.
If this is a new sentence for you, continue to read and I will decompose what a heat dome is and what causes them, and for more help, read the list of Cnet hacks to keep your home cool in summer.
What is a heat dome?
Consider a heat of heat similar to the installation of a lid on a pot or a frying pan while cooking something, said Alex Lamers of the National Weather Service at NPR.
A heat dome is what happens when a high pressure system lingers, which tramps hot air, causing prolonged temperature tips. Just like the way in which the installation of a lid on a saucepan or a saucepan traps heat and cooks food faster. Except in this case, the food is you and me.
This is aggravated by the fact that high pressure systems are known to cause dry weather, which can also contribute to warmer temperatures.
According to the heat map provided on the official national website of the integrated heat health information system, heat risks are raised for most of the country between the Midwest and Mississippi regions and the east coast, with east of North Carolina, Central Virginia, the Pittsburgh region, the South-East of Pennsylvania, the South-East of Maryland. Jersey and almost all of Delaware being under extreme thermal aircraft.
In the hardest affected areas, temperatures can go up to 115 degrees, while others will hover between 95 and 100 degrees. All around, this is the kind of time that can make the prospect of a power failure a scenario of life or death.
How long does a heat dome last?
I would like to have better news for you.
Unfortunately, the heat domes are known to last a few days to a few weeks, all depend on the time it takes for the high pressure system in a given region to move or dissipate.
While AcCuWeather reported on June 24 that the incoming rain storms will provide help, all regions will not have as lucky. Some areas will see the heat dome decompose more gradually. So if you hoped for things without putting ac, it is probably time to reconsider.
Does climate change aggravate heat domes?
Oh, absolutely.
Addressing Time Magazine for a report on the current heat wave, Bill Gallus, professor of meteorology at Iowa State University, said that the question of cause and effect was “one of the easiest to answer”.
Thermal domes, he explained, are one of the most likely consequences of the worsening of climate change, even more than other related meteorological events, such as the increase in tornadoes and stronger hurricanes.
“There are so many things that are complicated and we cannot say with certainty what climate change will do, like the number of hurricanes or tornadoes that we get,” said Gallus. “But it is likely that we will have more domes of heat and probably warmer temperatures in heat domes.”
How can I avoid a heat dome?
As you might be able to say from all these explanations so far, there is not much to do about a heat dome, except to move away from it.
This could mean staying inside where it is cool or to go to another place that does not suffer under a high pressure system. Maybe you are going to the west coast, where my other CNET colleagues – of which I am not jealous and that I have never been, promising – insist that time is positively tempered. I hope you have fun there, guys.
Or hey, maybe try the old summer wait and go see a film in a nice air-conditioned theater. This new F1 film looks quite neat.
For more weather advice, see the CNET guide to save energy during summer heat waves.
