A study conducted by scientists in the U.S. and Italy warns that summers could be a lot hotter in a hundred years because of global warming caused by greenhouse gases.
“Summer is likely to be more severely hot everywhere in the U.S.,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, an atmospheric scientist at Purdue University who co-authored study.
“In the Southwest, if you imagine the hottest two and a half weeks of the year, you’re looking at that becoming three months long. Phoenix [Arizona] will get three months of what is now the hottest two weeks of the year.”
Winter weather could be affected as well, Diffenbaugh said. “You’re looking at the coldest couple of weeks of the year not existing anymore in lot of places,” he said.
“Certainly winter as we know it likely will disappear in the Northeast.”
In NewMexiKen’s view Phoenix already gets “get three months of what is now the hottest two weeks of the year.”
Oh well, I intend to move to a milder climate before 2105 anyway.