Heat Stroke with Bud Cooper and Radley Horton
StarTalk Radio
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Is the Air Warming Up?
As water temperatures get above a threshold around 80 fahrenheit or so, it's much easier to get that enegy pump going whereby winds from a storm causing evaporation of very warm water. Warmer the waters are, the more potential for a really powerful, devastating hurricane and landfall. A warmer atmosphere, which we're getting, can hold more moisture, but it won't always, right? So certain areas that are prone to being hot and humid, the south east us. For exmple coastal areas, we can expect those areas not just to warm, but also to get more humid. But because they're hotter, they're going to suck moisture from crops, from
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