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Record Heat Breaks Century-Old March Records Across the Nation
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Good morning, this is Omaha Local Pulse for Sunday, March twenty-second.
We're waking up to an absolutely extraordinary weather story this morning. Just yesterday, Omaha set a new record for the warmest March day ever recorded in our city. Temperatures soared into the low nineties across the metro, and meteorologists are calling this part of a remarkable week of record-breaking heat that's been sweeping across the entire country. The National Weather Service in Omaha warned that this heat is likely breaking long-standing records from over a century ago. What makes this even more significant is that we're just one day into spring. Experts tell us that triple-digit temperatures typically don't arrive until May, yet parts of the Southwest are already hitting those numbers. Out in Arizona, the Yuma Desert actually reached one hundred twelve degrees on Friday, setting a new record for the highest March temperature anywhere in the United States. Two locations in Southern California hit that same temperature as well.
Here's what you need to know for today. Those extreme temperatures are dropping significantly. We're expecting a big weather shift with highs only reaching the fifties and sixties this afternoon. That's quite a swing from yesterday. However, the National Weather Service did post a red flag warning, which means we're facing a higher risk for wildfires across the region. This comes as Omaha continues to keep a close eye on Nebraska's larger fire situation. The Cottonwood and Morrill fires have burned more than twelve hundred square miles of range and grassland over the past several days, though officials report they're now largely contained and all evacuation orders have been lifted.
On the sports scene, our Omaha Athletics baseball team had an exciting finish yesterday, with Chase Diggins hitting a game-winning single in extra innings against Northern Colorado.
Looking ahead to the rest of the week, experts say April, May, and June are likely to be hotter than normal almost everywhere across the United States. This kind of March heat would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, according to scientists studying extreme weather patterns.
So as we head into our Sunday, enjoy the milder temperatures coming this afternoon, but stay weather aware with that red flag warning in effect. Thank you for tuning in to Omaha Local Pulse. Don't forget to subscribe for more local updates tomorrow and throughout the week. This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease dot ai.
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We're waking up to an absolutely extraordinary weather story this morning. Just yesterday, Omaha set a new record for the warmest March day ever recorded in our city. Temperatures soared into the low nineties across the metro, and meteorologists are calling this part of a remarkable week of record-breaking heat that's been sweeping across the entire country. The National Weather Service in Omaha warned that this heat is likely breaking long-standing records from over a century ago. What makes this even more significant is that we're just one day into spring. Experts tell us that triple-digit temperatures typically don't arrive until May, yet parts of the Southwest are already hitting those numbers. Out in Arizona, the Yuma Desert actually reached one hundred twelve degrees on Friday, setting a new record for the highest March temperature anywhere in the United States. Two locations in Southern California hit that same temperature as well.
Here's what you need to know for today. Those extreme temperatures are dropping significantly. We're expecting a big weather shift with highs only reaching the fifties and sixties this afternoon. That's quite a swing from yesterday. However, the National Weather Service did post a red flag warning, which means we're facing a higher risk for wildfires across the region. This comes as Omaha continues to keep a close eye on Nebraska's larger fire situation. The Cottonwood and Morrill fires have burned more than twelve hundred square miles of range and grassland over the past several days, though officials report they're now largely contained and all evacuation orders have been lifted.
On the sports scene, our Omaha Athletics baseball team had an exciting finish yesterday, with Chase Diggins hitting a game-winning single in extra innings against Northern Colorado.
Looking ahead to the rest of the week, experts say April, May, and June are likely to be hotter than normal almost everywhere across the United States. This kind of March heat would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, according to scientists studying extreme weather patterns.
So as we head into our Sunday, enjoy the milder temperatures coming this afternoon, but stay weather aware with that red flag warning in effect. Thank you for tuning in to Omaha Local Pulse. Don't forget to subscribe for more local updates tomorrow and throughout the week. This has been a Quiet Please production. For more, check out quietplease dot ai.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI