{"id":225708,"date":"2026-05-14T00:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225708"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:54:58","slug":"record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225708","title":{"rendered":"Record-shattering March temperatures in Western North America virtually impossible without climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusually early spring heatwave is developing across the southwestern United States (US), with temperatures that are more typical of summer than mid-March (AccuWeather, 16 March 2026). Driven by a strong, slow-moving high pressure system, called a \u2018heat dome\u2019, the event is causing temperatures to rise 11-17\u2103 (20-30\u2109) above average across parts of California&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldweatherattribution.org\/record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusually early spring heatwave is developing across the southwestern United States (US), with temperatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",0,0,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225708-record-shattering-march-temperatures-in-western-north-america-virtually-impossible-without6a051d6b65b50.jpg",1,1,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}