Severe Weather Looming for eastern USA

If you check your daily weather application (Weather Underground is the best, fyi), and you see a drop in temperature from 97°F to 75°F in one day with storms in between, don’t prematurely celebrate the drop in temperature.

Such extreme temperature drops, when caused by the passage of a cold front, typically come with extreme severe weather, like what we’re seeing now in the Midwest.

More than 200 million people from the central US to the East Coast are under high-level heat risk Tuesday as high temperatures climb into the 90s and the heat index soars even higher.

Stretches of extreme heat are getting more intense and lasting longer as the world warms due to fossil fuel burning.

The cold front moving through the Midwest right now has brought hurricane-force (up to 100 mph) winds and mass devastation, and will reach the East Coast later this week.