With less than a month to summer, weather experts were dropping some worrying news about what might be in the store. Accoweather has already expected a particularly active season – starting on June 1 – Up to 10 hurricanes at seaAnd meteorologist Prediction now Summer more hot than abnormal on the floor. Last week, the company warned that the three months could bring “tense heat, harsh weather, severe forest fires and a dynamic hurricane season” – Echo last summer, Which was the hottest ever. In some places, such as coastal cities along the Gulf coast, These risks can be combined In dangerous “vehicle disasters”, with thermal waves and hurricanes from back to back.
The cruciate campaign to reduce costs in Trump can make the weather this summer more risky. Collective workers in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration They are concerned about the hurricanes of the predictors They will lose access to the data they need to prepare accurate predictions of the place where storms will fall and on any severity. While electricity becomes more expensive, and global global warming forces to operate air conditioning more, defenders are concerned that federal support for people who are struggling to pay their electrical bills may leave a group of populations at risk in particular.
Trump Suggested 2026 budgetDisclosure of the veil last week, will be canceled Low -income home energy assistance programAlison Kofi, chief policy analyst in the Boston -based non -profit initiative, said that it provides 4 billion dollars annually to help people pay electricity bills. “We are about to experience one of the most important summer ever,” Kofi said. “This happens at a time when American families really fight to pay their utilities bills.”
Accoweather’s summer expectations are not the type you get to local weather, so they cannot tell you whether it is raining in your city on the fourth of July. Instead, this seasonal prediction looks at the weather trends in March and April, as well as larger phenomena such as Niña and El NIñO, compared to a partner of warm or cold water in the Pacific Ocean that affects the atmosphere over the West Accoweather in all of this to how that spring and summer looks in previous years to get an idea of what may be revealed at this time.
Accuweather says that temperatures can rise from average across the vast majority of the country this summer. Its expectations also warn of warmer nights, especially in the eastern United States, these heat waves make them more inner, as the human body cannot get a cold night comfort to drop physiological stress.
The East United States can also suffer through heat waves interspersed with thunderstorms that load the atmosphere with moisture. These conditions make the human body less efficient in sweating, which raises the risk of disease and heat -related deaths. The heat kills more people in the United States more than any other natural disaster, partly because it can exacerbate existing conditions such as heart disease and asthma.
In the West, Dakotas, Montana, Idahu, Washington, and Oregon can see 3 degrees of Fahrenheit, or more than average. “The highest final levels are a bigger problem, [records] Paul Putiluk, chief meteorologist in Aquoyeth, said this can be challenged or broken in parts of North Rocky and in the northwest that will come this summer, said Paul Bastilok, the chief meteorological specialist in Aquoyeth.
Pasteloc added that high temperatures will increase the risk of a wildfire, because the dry, inflated landscape is a flammable landscape. Currently, approximately 40 percent of the United States under drought conditions, doubling the area of last year. In fact, some parts of the American West had a somewhat wet winter, but this could also cause problems because strong plants and growing trees can turn into fuel in the unbearable summer heat. With the passage of the season, the scene becomes more dry, so it is recognized that it is catastrophic.
Day after day of uncompromising heat, especially if they are wet, people are forced to run AC to stay in good health. For the wealthy, this is not a problem. But low -income persons suffer from the high “energy burden”, which means that the monthly facility bill worth $ 200 is much larger than their income. Americans are also struggling with an escalation crisis with high rent and inflation. With one of every six American families Now behind their billsAccording to the Energy Modification Initiative, and 3 million of them enjoy the closure of their strength every year, the risk loses power during the heat wave this summer.
The city’s residents face an added risk here due to the impact of the urban heat island, the way it wears sidewalks, parking, heat and city making buildings Most hot than the surrounding rural areas. Low -income neighborhoods get 15 or 20 degrees more hot than the richest neighborhoods because they contain fewer trees, which provide shadow and cooling, according to Vivic Chandas, the climate -adapting world at Portland State University. “These neighborhoods, and the residents who live in them, only carry this thermal wave much more than a person who lives in a more investment neighborhood, where the umbrella of trees is green.”
It will take much longer time to fix the regular problems that drive the temperatures in the cities. But in the meantime, access to air conditioning will be increasingly important with the high temperature of the planet. “Getting financial assistance to low -income families to ensure that she can maintain their electricity and cool them during the flowing summer more important than ever,” Kofi said.
