4 Months into “Danger Season,” Here’s Our Extreme Heat, Flood, Extreme Fire Weather Tally
, and we have another two months or so to go before the season *hopefully* starts to wind down. My colleagues and I have been monitoring extreme weather on a daily basis since May. We have been keeping track of the number and location of extreme heat, flood, hurricane, and fire weather alerts that the
From the map below we can see that areas with the highest number of days with heat alerts are in the Southern Great Plains and the Southeast. 107 counties in five states in these regions had heat alerts for 28 days or more.
Some counties saw a very high number of days with flood alerts. For example, Woodruff County , Crow Wing County , Sanborn County , and Catron County, Los Alamos County, Mora County, and Sandoval County , were under alerts between 22 and 33 days — that is, between 3 and 4 weeks’ worth of flood alerts since May.
In New Mexico, for example, where most counties have had between 8 and 14 days with fire weather alerts, wildfires have gotten larger since the mid-1980s. Across the Western US, temperature increases associated with human-caused climate change over the last 40 years are part of the reason the region has experienced growth in the size of wildfires.
116 counties in the Great Plains, the Southwest, and the Northwest were under multiple types of alerts during the same week since the May 1 start of Danger Season/Map created by Juan Declet-Barreto using National Weather Service data. In the Dallas/Fort Worth area, similarly, there were such 27 days above 100°F, and the last time there was a similar number was also in 2011 .
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