糖心破解版

The roof of the has melted off; have been blazing in Sweden; Montreal鈥檚 morgue is overflowing with victims of the sweltering conditions; and are in danger because of the persistent heat and little rain. registered the highest temperature ever recorded on the entire continent of Africa this past week: 51.3 degrees Celsius, or 124.3 degrees Fahrenheit.

How did we arrive at this sweaty juncture? It seems like a combination of factors are interacting to create above average temperatures . Meteorologists have attributed some of the global heat to the weak jet stream, which causes high pressure, hot weather systems to linger for longer. A similar global heat wave hit in 1976: the difference now? Baseline temperatures are higher due partly to global warming.