Weather has always been extreme, but the summer of 2023 has experienced a new level of heat, drought, biblical flooding and billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
Confidence levels are high that the the fall and winter months will be milder and drier than average, based on a developing Super El Nino pattern in the Pacific Ocean
The hottest weather of the summer may come in early September, which is unusual - while tens of millions of American living in the southeastern US grapple with dangerous Hurricane Idalia
The hottest air of the summer will brush much of Minnesota and Wisconsin with a heat index anywhere from 100 to 111F Tuesday and Wednesday, hot enough to buckle roads according to NOAA