AccuWeather’s forecasters said Wednesday that summer 2024 is sizing up to be an absolute sizzler.
In a seemingly preemptive strike to blame the soaring energy costs we’re all about to face on “the weather,” AccuWeather told Americans that our air conditioners will “have their work cut out for them” throughout the summer as it’ll be a hot one … like seven inches from the midday sun … across the country. While some places have already had mini summers ahead of schedule, other parts of the U.S. are only just waking up.
Baltimore hit 90 degrees on April 29, while Phoenix had it’s earliest 100-degree day in six years, AccuWeather reported. However, no one around where I live in North Carolina has started seriously planting their seeds yet because it has been weirdly cold throughout March and April. So, what is really going on?
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Temperatures throughout June to August are reportedly expected to be at least 2 degrees hotter in some places when compared to the human historical average (an incredibly limited dataset that goes back less than 100 years so it is totally inappropriate to call a “historical average,” but here we are).
“Summer 2024 can feature heat waves for many areas across the Plains to Northeast,” AccuWeather’s Paul Pastelok said. “Compared to historical averages, the hottest areas can be over the Great Lakes, Upper Midwest and southwestern Plains.”
As a result, energy demands are “expected to be higher compared to average” with “cooling devices” in “high demand,” Pastelok reportedly continued. As if they’re not every summer. (RELATED: Energy Companies Gaslight Customers Into Thinking Soaring Costs Are Due To Extreme Weather)
AccuWeather then went so far as to say that “mercury is predicted to hit 90 degrees more frequently than historical averages across many other Northeast cities, such as Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, and areas farther west, including Chicago.” Never, not in all my higher education in this field of science nor the PhD papers I ghost-wrote for others, have I known a meteorologist to claim they’ve made a “prediction” when it comes to the weather as it is literally impossible to do. You can forecast the weather, not predict it.
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It should also be noted that nowhere in the forecast did AccuWeather mention the possible impacts of these allegedly high temperatures on infrastructure, such as the energy grid, beyond higher energy demands and costs.
Rest assured there will be plenty of risk of severe thunderstorms and hurricanes as the summer ramps up. Pastelok reportedly warned of “derechos,” which are clusters of thunderstorms that essentially create a type of inland hurricane. (RELATED: Get Ready For A Category 6 Hurricane, But Not In The Way You Think)
AccuWeather says 2024 may be a “super-charged Atlantic hurricane season,” with the first big one hitting before June 1. So that’s great … said no one, ever.