Ocean hot spots could help today’s long-range weather forecasters predict extreme summers for Central US.
Two ocean hot spots have been found to be the potential drivers of the hottest summers on record for the Central US in 1934 and 1936. The research may also help modern forecasters predict particularly hot summers over the central United States many months out.
The unusually hot summers of 1934/36 broke heat records that still stand today. They were part of the devastating dust bowl decade in the US when massive dust storms traveled as far as New York, Boston and Atlanta and silt covered the decks of ships 450km off the east coast.
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