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Sep 14, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Stephen Porder |Baylor Fox-Kemper

The news is full of record high temperatures. Phoenix broke 110 degrees for . July 3 was the since record keeping began, until July 4, then July 6, and then July as a whole. It is anomalously hot—at least if you look at air temperatures 2 meters (about 6 and 1/2 feet) above the surface, which is how it's usually reported by government agencies. But if you look a little more broadly, the heat is not an anomaly—and that's an even bigger problem.

Sep 14, 2023 | time.com | Stephen Porder |Baylor Fox-Kemper

The news is full of record high temperatures. Phoenix broke 110 degrees for . July 3 was the since record keeping began, until July 4, then July 6, and then July as a whole. It is anomalously hot—at least if you look at air temperatures 2 meters (about 6 and 1/2 feet) above the surface, which is how it's usually reported by government agencies. But if you look a little more broadly, the heat is not an anomaly—and that's an even bigger problem.