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   CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:50:04 JST CelloMom On Cars

   "To better understand what has played out on the ground during those record months, a team of researchers from analysed how many days of unusually hot weather each country experienced over the last year.

   It found human-caused climate change added 26 more days of extreme heat, on average, across all places in the world, to what there would have been without a warmed planet."

   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/world-the-hottest-on-record-12-months-in-a-row/103904150

   Find the number of your country on the article's interactive map.

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     CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:50:03 JST CelloMom On Cars

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     Why the huge increase in days with #ExtremeHeat?

     Climate change does two things to air temperature:
     1. The AVERAGE shifts to higher temperature. This one is obvious. But also:
     2. The VARIANCE gets larger so the extremes become more prevalent

     Both of these effects together give a LOT more VERY hot days.

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     CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:50:04 JST CelloMom On Cars

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     "An extreme heat day is one that is warmer than 90 per cent of all observed temperatures at the site from 1991-2020."

     https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/world-the-hottest-on-record-12-months-in-a-row/103904150

     The interactive map shows the largest number of extreme heat days around the equator where temperatures are already high even without climate change.

     Extreme heat days with / without climate change:

     127 / 27 DR Congo
     135 / 12 Indonesia
     180 / 10 Ecuador

     39 / 20 United States
     30 / 20 Russia

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.