Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climate Specialist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsis: The high-pressure system over most of California is expected to bring record-breaking temperatures, part of a “self-perpetuating” system that climate change worsens.

UCLA News: “This is going to be a long-duration event,” Swain said. “And that’s sort of characteristic of heat domes — that’s partly because they can sort of be self-persisting, self-reinforcing. Once they develop and become particularly extreme, they kind of become hard to dislodge.”

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