{"id":19696,"date":"2016-04-08T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19696"},"modified":"2016-04-08T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:53:50","slug":"sea-sends-early-warning-of-heatwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19696","title":{"rendered":"Sea sends early warning of heatwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sea sends early warning of heatwaves<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Feeling the heat as New York City swelters in extreme summer temperatures.\u00a0Image:\u00a0Bill<\/a>\u00a0via Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean can give the US Midwest and East Coast 50 days\u2019 notice to prepare itself for a dangerous spell of extreme heat.<\/strong><\/div>\n

LONDON, 8 April, 2016<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Americans could have as many as seven weeks\u2019\u00a0advance notice of devastating heatwaves<\/a>. A telltale pattern of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean could presage weeks of intolerable temperatures in the cities and plains of the US.<\/p>\n

Research\u00a0published in Nature Geoscience<\/a>\u00a0reveals that a \u201cfingerprint\u201d of sea surface temperatures about 20 degrees north of the Equator \u2013 and dubbed the Pacific Extreme Pattern \u2013 meant that the chances of sustained and extreme heat 50 days later in the US Midwest and East Coast stepped up from one in six to one in four. And 30 days ahead, the same pattern brought the odds to better than one in two.<\/p>\n

Critical aspects<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSummertime heatwaves are among the deadliest weather events, and they can have big impacts on farming, energy use, and other critical aspects of society,\u201d says Karen McKinnon, a post-doctoral fellow at the\u00a0National Centre for Atmospheric Research<\/a>\u00a0in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can give city planners and farmers a heads up that extreme heat is on the way, we might be able to\u00a0avoid some of the worst consequences<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Climate scientists have consistently predicted that climate change will be driven by global warming that will manifest itself in ever\u00a0more intense, and more frequent, extremes of heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2012, the US was hit by an\u00a0unprecedented and sustained heatwave<\/a>\u00a0that broke thousands of local temperature records, and claimed an estimated 100 lives.<\/p>\n

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Sea sends early warning of heatwaves Feeling the heat as New York City swelters in extreme summer temperatures.\u00a0Image:\u00a0Bill\u00a0via Flickr Surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean can give the US Midwest and East Coast 50 days\u2019 notice to prepare itself for a dangerous spell of extreme heat. LONDON, 8 April, 2016\u00a0\u2013 Americans could have as many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9245,288,9103,1273,1790,13368,11565],"class_list":["post-19696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-news-network","tag-extreme-weather","tag-heatwaves","tag-ocean-warming","tag-oceans","tag-sea-surface-temperature","tag-tim-radford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19697,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19696\/revisions\/19697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}