This heat has rapidly melted any snow remaining on the ground and has caused the thawing of the top layer of the permanently frozen soil. The water from the thaw is unable to percolate down through the frozen layers below. That causes even more thawing.
This week, a vast heat dome enveloped western Canada and the north-western US, temperatures had nowhere to go but up.
Global News: Several buildings have been destroyed in Lytton, B.C. […]
The heat wave baking the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, is of an intensity never recorded by modern humans.
Flash flooding inundated many highways in the Detroit metro area on Saturday, with more rain in the forecast. There is also a tornado watch in the region.
As CBS News’ Mola Lenghi reports, drought conditions in the […]