Extreme weather is causing ecological anxiety, like floods in Texas
Flash floods, heat domes and wildfires make our young people experience eco distress. How can you help them become more resilient?
- The northeastern enjoys several days of humidity and cool temperatures before the thermal dome reaches the area.
- Kansas City, Missouri and Dallas are one of the first cities this year to see 100 degrees.
The jetstream bulge will conspire with large, high-pressure systems to create “heat domes,” bringing temperatures close to three times the number that can stay in August in the Midwest and Eastern belts, predictors say.
Dallas was able to see 100 degrees for the first time in 2025. Kansas City, Missouri, hasn’t seen 100 degrees in two years, but it could hit numbers multiple times this week, said Chad Merrill, a senior meteorologist at Accuweather.
National Weather Service, which forecasts a heat index of 107 on July 21 and 107 on July 22, issued an extreme heat warning until the second half of July 24th.
Around 85 million Americans from South Dakota to Texas, North Carolina and Florida had already received the National Weather Service’s extreme heat warning, clock or recommendation.
“By the middle of the week, the 90s will be spreading from the south to the Midwest and the Great Lakes,” wrote Jonathan Erdman, a senior meteorologist at weather.com.
Texas, Arkansas and parts of Louisiana have their highest peaks at nearly 100 or nearly 100 degrees, with heat indexes above 100 degrees in much larger areas of the South, Midwest and Great Lakes.
“This has the long-term heatwave appearance with limited rainfall,” Merrill said. “Drought will expand the Central Plains by mid-August and worsen in Kansas and Nebraska, where there are already pockets of moderate to extreme drought.”
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The July 21 thunderstorm forecast could cause flash flooding in parts of the northwest, southwest, midwest, midwest and southeastern areas.
Chicago corn, wheat and soy futures fell on July 21st as traders squeezed concerns that the hot climate would shrink our harvest, according to Reuters.
The region from the central and northern plains to the Ohio Valley and southeastern areas could face a complex of wind and storm damage known as Derecos, Accuweather said.
Eldman writes that if the final weekend in July continues south with the Plains, the heat wave could continue until it expands westward and westward towards the Rockies.
“Our long distance outlook suggests that the Northeast is most likely to see some heat relief in the end last weekend in July,” Erdman said.
Hot weather increases the risk that children will be left in cars that get hot in the sun. Advocacy groups’ child and car safety says the deaths of 15 young children left behind in hot cars have already been reported across the country this year. Last year, 41 such deaths were recorded.
Transport Secretary Sean Duffy recently said that as a father up to the age of nine, he understands how difficult it is to track a child every minute.
“But there’s no excuse to keep your kids in a parked car,” he said. “All parents, siblings, relatives, and babysitters need to understand the severity of doing so, and this is the only way that can prevent more of these heartbreaking losses of life.”
According to ClimaTecheck.com, heat domes are not actually a scientific term. The term says it effectively describes a “oppressive” high-pressure atmospheric system that pushes warm air into the surface of the earth and traps it there for a long period of time.
“The dome locks high-pressure air in one place, like a pot lid,” the website says. “These large zones of heat create a combination of fierce temperatures, catastrophic wildfires and drought conditions.”
The northeast enjoys several days of humidity and cool temperatures before “bubbles” from the heat dome slip out of the Midwest, bringing the predictions of brutal hot yeast, Accuweather. Temperatures drop in New York and Washington, the ’60s in Boston, the ’50s, and in some northeastern regions in the ’40s.
The rest will close by July 25th, when high temperatures in Washington are expected to reach nearly 100 degrees. Detroit will reach deeper into the 90s on Thursday and Friday. Philadelphia will push nearly 100 on July 25th and July 26th.
“A late-night scorcher heading east will be devoured and whipped,” Merrill said.
