SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Syracuse residents should look for ways to cool off this week.
The city is experiencing its third heatwave of the summer, which is already the 8th hottest on record, according to Syracuse.com. The newspaper said this comes as there have already been 13 days this year with temperatures in the 90s; an average year in Syracuse will usually only have 10 days where temperatures reach that point.
The heatwave arrives at the same time as a report released by United Nations scientists said temperatures in about a decade will likely exceed the level of warming world leaders had aimed to prevent.
“Over the past several decades, key indicators of the climate system are increasingly at levels unseen in centuries to millennia, and are changing at rates unprecedented in at least the last 2,000 years,” according to the U.N. report, written by some of the world’s top scientists.
A relief from the heat is expected to arrive this weekend as a cold front accompanied by rain approaching on Friday should drop temperatures back into the 70s this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
