With nearly a third of the U.S. facing excessive heat warnings and the U.K. coming off of a stretch of record high temperatures, weather is dominating headlines around the world.
“It’s becoming almost routine to see records like this every summer,” said Russ Schumacher, Colorado’s state climatologist and the director of the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University. “It’s not great, but it’s the reality that we’re coming to live in.”
He took some time to talk to SOURCE about climate change, the science behind the record heat and the outlook for the rest of the year in Colorado and beyond.
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Image: Russ Schumacher is the director of the Colorado Climate Center and the Colorado State climatologist. (Credit: Colorado State University)