On "Forbes Newsroom," AccuWeather Meteorologist Alex DeSilva discussed what the rest of the summer will look like in terms of heat waves, and what people should expect in terms of extreme temperatures.
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00:00Huge population centers to be sure, but I guess what I'm also wondering is if you look at the airflow and if you look at the weather system, is there something about climate change that is driving such a massive weather system to raise the temperatures as high as they will be this week?
00:16Well, it's hard to exactly tie, you know, one single event to climate change, of course.
00:20But what we have been seeing is we've seen the temperatures of the oceans warming, warming pretty consistently over the last, you know, 10, 15 years.
00:28And I think that is playing a role, you know, when there's more heat in the oceans, some more of that heat can kind of get transferred into the atmosphere, essentially, and can help to build these areas of high pressure.
00:37So I think that could be a contributing factor, and we might end up seeing some more of these heat waves as we move into the future.
00:46Now, there were wildfires outside of L.A., a tropical storm system in Mexico.
00:51Are all of these things connected?
00:53Can we blame one weather event for all of these headlines?
00:56Or is it disparate weather events that have caused the wildfires and the tropical storm and now the impending heat wave in the Northeast?
01:04I think they're slightly different.
01:06You know, each one is kind of independent of one another, but sometimes you can get one thing to affect another.
01:12For example, you have the big heat dome in the east, and that is actually what's going to be driving the potential tropical system down in the Bay of Campeche that's developing right now.
01:23We could see a tropical depression or tropical storm very, very soon, and that is going to be driven on the bottom end of that area of high pressure.
01:31Sometimes we, you know, early in the season especially, tropical systems kind of like to belly underneath these areas of high pressure and right around the periphery of them.
01:40And so that's what we're going to be seeing.
01:41If that system develops in the Bay of Campeche, it's going to be kind of guided to the west by that area of high pressure.
01:47I will say this.
01:48That area of high pressure could be a saving grace for us in terms of the tropics overall because that system is going to be driven to the west into Mexico fairly quickly here, I think, over the next couple of days.
01:59Now, if that high wasn't there, the system could have potentially gotten drawn north through the Gulf of Mexico, had much more time to potentially strengthen, and then impacted the United States.
02:09So it could potentially be a saving grace that, you know, that system only will have a very short time over those warm waters.