Extremes

  As I'm typing this, we just got a nice storm through my area. It's cooled things down a bit and there's a breeze, but it's been very hot. Raise your hand if you saw this coming over a decade ago, most of us who paid attention did.

 NY Times: Well Beyond the U.S., Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions - People all over the world are facing severe heat, floods and fire, aggravated by the use of fossil fuels. The year isn’t halfway done. By Somini Sengupta Somini Sengupta has covered the human toll of extreme heat from nearly every continent.

Extreme heat killed an estimated 489,000 people annually between 2000 and 2019, according to the World Meteorological Organization, making heat the deadliest of all extreme weather events.