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Originally Posted by freebeard
Explain like I'm five years old.
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The 'warmer than ever recorded' sea surface temperatures' are providing the warm, moist, buoyant air, which provides the convective-available-potential- energy ( CAPE ) which busts through the upper-level, cold, sub-freezing air inversion 'cap', feeding the water vapor which will spawn the record-sized hailstones that are killing cattle, sending people to emergency rooms, creating the lightning storms spawning forest wildfires, killer straight-line wind, Derechos; flash-flooding, as well as killer tornadoes, and killing heat-index.
This week, all-time tropical storm records for the N. Atlantic fell with Brett and Cindy.
Mexico is experiencing the highest temperatures ever recorded and got it's first hurricane yesterday.
The smoke from trees killed in Canada by sub-tropical storm Fiona a few years ago, then converted to 'fuel' by two years of record heat, made New York City's air, the most-polluted on Earth a week ago.
I'm in the third week of 100+ degree temps.