What the jet stream and climate change had to do with the hottest summer on record − remember all those heat domes?
- Written by Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost every day.
Phoenix reached 100 degrees for more than 100 days straight. The 2024 Olympic Games started in the midst of a long-running heat wave in Europe that included the three hottest days on record...