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Searing heat and fire danger will quickly ramp up as a summerlike heat dome parks over the region and makes it feel like July.

Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week.

The official start of summer is just a few weeks away, but it will feel like July in much of the West as temperatures climb 20 degrees or more above average, the highest temperatures of the year so far for many locations.

Excessive heat warnings are in effect for more than 17 million people in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona this week. The warnings are the most extreme form of heat alert issued by the National Weather Service and are used when widespread, dangerous heat is expected.

The soaring temperatures are being caused by a heat dome, a large area of high pressure that parks over an area, traps air and heats it with abundant sunshine for days or weeks. The resulting heat becomes more intense the longer a heat dome lasts.

  • Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Celsius is just as good at describing temperatures humans experience. Every 5o is ‘category’:

    < -10o Cripes it’s cold!

    -10 to -5o Cold

    -5 to 0o Snow/ice will melt

    0o ‘true’ freezing/melting temperature

    0 to 5o Cool

    5 to 10o Brisk, jacket optional

    10 to 15o Cool, Comfortable to work

    15 to 20o Cold house

    20 to 25o Typical house temps

    25 to 30o Shorts recommended

    30 to 35o Hot

    35 to 40o Severely hot

    '> 40o Crazy hot.

    It’s simply just getting used to the values which you have to do with F too anyways, and IMO the C scale just makes far more sense. With F none of the values are intuitive and require you to learn them all.