The latest heat wave that has been broiling the western United States over the last few days has made its way to New York City and other major urban centers in the Northeast such as Boston and Philadelphia.
The Northeast is also a relatively wet and humid region, and the heat index — a metric that adds humidity and heat to measure what the weather feels like — is surging past 100. In New York, it's expected to measureCities including Boston have declared heat emergencies in anticipation of the heat wave and opened cooling centers for residents.
Scientists say that it’s possible that climate models may have underestimated the frequency and duration of heat waves. “In a lot of the really extreme heat waves that we’ve seen in recent years are these nonlinear self-reinforcing, vicious-cycle feedback processes between the atmosphere and the land surface,” Swain said.
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