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Where did the 'heat dome' term come from? Is it actually a new kind of weather phenomenon (the Wikipedia page is from this year) or just a new term the media ha
by fy20 5y ago
Where did the 'heat dome' term come from? Is it actually a new kind of weather phenomenon (the Wikipedia page is from this year) or just a new term the media has been (ab)using instead of calling it a heat wave as they would before?
- hanselot 5y agoDoesn't heat dome sound way more sensational? Hard to convince people to take a wolf seriously with decades of crying about it. In fact, at this point, we are all voting for the wolf.
- fulafel 5y agoThere are mentions in papers from the 1980s, eg https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02507142 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02507142 (edit: changed link, fixed from earlier where the context was minerals instead of climate and dates were in 70s)