“It is not your grandparents” summer “: 70 million Americans from the eastern coast had only more June and July in history

This means that the warm and uncomfortable nights in many cities in the past few weeks.

Parts of 27 states and DC had a record amount of days that meteorologists called uncomfortable – with a daily average Dew points From 65 degrees Fahrenheit or higher – in June and July, according to data from Copernicus climate service.

This is only the daily average. In most of the east, comfort remained to the nearby tropical levels for a few wet hours. Philadelphia had 29 days, Washington was 27 days, and Baltimore was 24 days, as the highest point of Nada was ripening to at least 75 degrees, so that Tampa’s weather office calls it repressive, according to weather service data.

Dew Point is a scale of moisture in the air expressed in the degrees that many meteorologists call the most accurate way to describe moisture. In the summer of 2025 until now, dew points, whose average is more than 6 degrees of at least the standards of no less than 1951-2020 in Washington, Baltimore, Petsburg, Ricchenid, Columbus and St. Lewis. The average moisture in June and July of the entire country east Rocky has risen to more than 66 degrees, and it is higher than a year since the measurements began in 1950.

“This has been a very severe summer. The wet heat was on its way,” said Bernadette Black Blake, Central Meteorological Specialist Central Climate Specialist.

Twice this summer, the climate scientist and moisture expert, Cameron Lee from the Kent State University measured dew points of about 82 degrees at the weather station in Ohio. This is outside The various plans used by the weather service To describe what the dew points feel.

“There are parts of the United States that witness only greater moisture, especially in the spring and summer, but also in the most extreme wet days,” he told me. He said that the superior sticky days now extend over more than days and more than the ground.

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“What really affects the body is the temperature of the night,” said Taylor. “So, if there is no cooling at night or if there is a lack of cooling, your body will not be allowed to cool down and recover from what was really hot in the afternoon. And so when you start to see it for several days, the body can really wear, especially if you do not have access to cooling centers or air conditioning.”

and Very hot and Summer summer Woods Blake said that the weather pattern combines climate change from charcoal burning, oil and natural gas.

The area east of Rocky has gained an average of about 2.5 degrees in the summer dew since 1950, and it shows the AP analysis of Copernicus data. In the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and part of the nineties, the eastern half of the country had the medium dew point in the 1960s, which you call the weather service remarkable but good. In the past four years, this number was soon and even on the uncomfortable line of 65.

“It is huge,” he told me about the 75 -year -old trend. “This shows a huge increase over a relatively short period of time.”

He told me that this small increase in medium dew points really means the worst days that occurred once a year, which now happens several times in the summer, which affects people.

Top moisture and feeding on each other. Meteorologists said that the basic law of physics is that the atmosphere carries an additional water by 4 % per degree of Fahrenheit (7 % per degree of degrees) warmer.

Taylor said that for most summer, the Middle West and the East were incredibly stuck under the hot high pressure systems, which strengthened temperatures, or obtaining heavy and continuous rains in much higher quantities than average. What was often missing is the cross -cross front that pushes the most repressive heat and moisture. He said that this finally came in August and brought relief.

Moisture varies depending on the area. The West is more dry. The south gets more than 65 degrees in summer more than the north. But this changes.

The meteorological professor at the University of Georgia Marshall Shabard said that uncomfortable humidity is moving to the north, to less dependent places on people.

He said that the summer is now, “not the summer of your ancestors.”

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Burnstein from Washington and Wildman from Hartford, Connecticut.

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