The people of Washington and New York are burning under the raging sun as America is being hit by heat waves for three days now. What is supposed to be a cheerful spring season for them has turned to be a bad summer experience.
IT SEEMS like it is a sequence out of the movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, except in reality United States is being tormented by heat waves and not cold temperatures. It has been three days and the heat waves are yet to abate. This is coming in the way of clearing of the mess that the tornado left in its path in Massachusetts.
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The north-eastern part and the mid-Atlantic parts of the US are experiencing some unusually high temperatures, which has pressed a panic button in Washington and New York. According to the Journal 'Climate Change' by Stanford scientists some of the parts of the earth would heat up so quickly that it would be hotter than the hottest summers so far experienced by mankind. It was 32.22 C in New Jersey and people are facing such temperatures for some days now.
The National Weather Service has already warned the people that the temperatures can rise to 37.78 C and more, with unbearable humidity in the East Coast and Southeast, and stay there for several days. A number of deaths have also been reported due to the rising mercury.
The reason for the unnatural hot spring in the United States is known to every layman. Global warming is showing its true colours as the sun is getting hotter by the day due to the depletion in the Ozone layer. Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground, told ABC News, “What's going on is we are experiencing the most extreme spring on record - tornados and wildfires, too.”
According to a study in this month’s Climatic Change Journal the Northern Hemisphere is getting heated up, and in the next 20-60 years the temperatures would rise to become unbearable. Stanford University scientists says that the main culprit is the Green house gas concentrations. The scientists also adds, “We find that the most immediate increase in extreme seasonal heat occurs in the tropics, with up to 70 per cent of seasons in the early 21st century (2010-2039) exceeding the late-20th century maximum.”
Not only that they also contemplate that North America, China and Mediterranean Europe would enter the heat zone by 2070.