Unprecedented June heat along the Northeast urban corridor, brought to you by climate change

BOB HENSON / YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS – An air mass that had already broken records for early-summer mugginess in the Midwest got even toastier as it pushed into the Northeast on Tuesday, June 24. Millions of Northeasterners ended up suffering through the hottest weather ever experienced this early in summer along much of the Interstate 95 corridor.

The conditions were close to textbook-ideal for such heat across the Northeast and New England, as offshore winds and full sunshine arrived just days after the summer solstice …