- Globally, June was the hottest June in the 174-year records kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency said on Thursday.
- Canada is in a record-breaking wildfire season. Sea ice is at an all-time low. Vermont is recovering from catastrophic flooding. If it feels like lately, there’s a new record-level, end-of days extreme weather event with astounding frequency, you’re not alone.
- Global warming causes a hotter wetter atmosphere, which has been adding intensity to extreme weather events for decades. And in June, El Niño weather pattern arrived, which is adding fuel to the already roiling fire of extreme weather.
“This year will almost certainly break records for the number of extreme weather events,” Paul Ullrich, professor of regional and global climate modeling at University of California at Davis, told CNBC.
Global warming is making extreme weather events more severe, scientists said.