NPR: Remember when we told you that several cold winters were meaningless "weather"? We just decided that a few hot days are super-meaningful "climate"

Soaring Temps Wilt East Coast, Shorten School Days : NPR

Get used to it: A new study from Stanford University offers the latest forecast that global climate change will lead to a permanent shift to unusually hot summers in the coming years.
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As the heat wave has pushed east, it has crushed previous record highs in St. Louis and St. Paul, Minn., where the mercury reached 102 degrees on Tuesday and finally melted a giant snow pile in a Sears parking lot.