The historic drought that for weeks has showered a swath of the U. S. from Virginia through New England with red flag wildfire warnings shows no signs of easing soon, the USA Today website reports today (Nov. 12, 2024).
Adam Douty, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, says some of the hardest hit areas would require 7 inches or more of rain to end the dry spell. No such weather pattern is in sight, he said.
Cities such as Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Trenton, N.J. broke records for a number of days withou appreciable rain before showers reached the region on Nov. 10.
Philadelphia went 42 days; the old record was 29 days, Douty said. "They not only broke the record, they smashed it."
The weather service in Boston issued red flag warnings for all of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, citing the combination of new fires, dry weather, and gusty northwest winds 15 to 25 mph today.
Since early this year, climate scientists have been saying 2024 was likely to be the warmest year on record. Ten months in, it's now "virtually certain," the Copernicus Climate Change Service has announced. The previous hottest year on record was last year.
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