Rinse And Repeat: Too Wet, Then Too Hot

Corn seedlings dying (“damping off”) after a flood (photo by Scot Nelson via Flickr Creative Commons license)

23 June 2025

May and June were very wet in western Pennsylvania, so much so that some crops won’t make it. @CBSPittsburgh interviewed Dan Yarnick about the floods at Yarnick’s Farm in Indiana County.

video on 19 June 2025, embedded from CBS Pittsburgh on YouTube

This week the flooding is over but now it’s way too hot.

Hot week predicted in Pittsburgh on 23 June 2025 (screenshot from NWS)

Six years ago I found a mapping tool from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science that predicted our future climate in 2080. I translated their prediction into the temperature and precipitation graphs below.

Graph comparing 2019 average high/low temperatures by month to 2080 prediction, Pittsburgh, with 100+ degrees maximum (graph by Kate St. John using current averages, adding UMCES prediction)
Graph comparing 2019 average rainall by month to 2080 prediction for Pittsburgh (graph by Kate St. John using current averages, adding UMCES prediction)

The prediction said it would happen 55 years from now, in 2080, but it seems that climate change is ahead of schedule.

Rinse and repeat. Bad weather is becoming bad climate.

Flooded corn field, June 2006 (photo by courane01 via Flickr Creative Commons license)

Read about the 2080 prediction and check out the interactive map at What Will Our Climate Feel Like in 60 Years?

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