Like much of the planet, Southern California is expected to experience more heat waves in the future due to Earth’s changing climate. And some of these will feel increasingly humid, as long-term forecasts call for muggy spells more typically associated with Florida or eastern Texas.
Following weeks of heat waves and fires, torrential rains unleashed widespread flooding in Central Greece in early September 2023.
High heat and humidity blanketed many states in the U.S. South, Midwest and Great Plains in late August 2023, when a large area of high pressure and warm air, often referred to as a heat dome, parked over the interior United States.
Land surface temperatures around Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2023 were recorded by NASA’s Ecostress instrument, which is carried on the International Space Station.
With Portugal in the grip of a heatwave, a wildfire broke out on Aug. 5, 2023, south of Odemira in the Alentejo region in southern Portugal.
A fast-moving wildfire devastated the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii’s second-largest island.
Aeolus, ESA’s wind mission, reentered Earth’s atmosphere on July 28, 2023, confirmed by U.S. Space Command.
On July 10, 2023, a volcano some 30 kilometers from Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, erupted following heightened seismic activity in the area.
Former NASA astronaut Jack Fischer captured this photograph of Lagoa dos Barros and crescent-shaped barchan dunes on the Atlantic coastline of southern Brazil on July 9, 2017, while aboard the International Space Station.
Air temperature, given in our daily weather forecasts, is a measure of how hot the air is above the ground. Land-surface temperature instead is a measure of how hot the actual surface would feel to the touch.
