Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Made Current Raleigh Heat Wave More Likely

I blame you for driving a fossil fueled vehicle, living in a big house, and not eating bugs for this

How climate change made Raleigh’s record-breaking heat far more likely

Solar-powered fans kept Sonya Lloyd shaded at Raleigh’s Chavis Park splash pad Tuesday, but the air still felt like 111 degrees.

“This one is a scorcher,” the 60-year-old grandmother said, clutching a quart of water and keeping watch over her pregnant daughter.

“We’re not trying to have a heat stroke,” she said.

The brutal afternoon marked a Climate Shift Index (CSI) level 5 for the Triangle, the maximum rating issued by research group Climate Central. A CSI-5 means human-caused warming made today’s temperature at least five times more likely than in a world without carbon pollution.

OK, not they’re just making shit up. Climate Shift Index? Piss off

A sprawling “heat dome” that baked the Midwest over the weekend slid east, parking a bubble of high pressure over the Carolinas and trapping humid air near the surface. Similar domes have broken June records from Boston to Raleigh this week, part of a national pattern of record-setting warmth.

But the backdrop is a climate that’s already warmer. Summers in Raleigh-Durham are 4.4 degrees hotter than in the 1970s, with about 39 more above-average summer days each year, according to Climate Central.

That hotter starting point “is driving earlier, hotter summers and making dangerous heat extremes more frequent and more intense,” said Shel Winkley, a meteorologist on Climate Central’s climate-and-health team.

Urban “hot spots” in downtown Raleigh bake as much as 19 degrees warmer than shaded suburbs because pavement and rooftops trap daytime heat.

Liz McLaughlin just describe the Urban Heat Island effect.

Historically, Raleigh gets 5-6 100 degree days, not including heat index. Over the past 10 years we may get 1, and, since the weather stations are improperly cited, that is suspect. Oh, and the record high for Raleigh on June 25th? 100 in 1952. How was it 102 in 1887 for the 20th of June? Or 100 in 1895 on the 3rd? There was no airport to artificially inflate the temperature. You didn’t have all the massive infrastructure, roads, buildings, etc back then in Raleigh. If it is so bad, why aren’t the Warmists giving up their own fossil fueled vehicles? It’s Raleigh, all those wackos on the road and growing have to be at least 50% Democrats.

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