* Heat, not drought, will cause crop losses in America in future:
Climate change-induced heat stress will play a larger role than drought stress in reducing the yields of several major U.S. crops later this century, according to Cornell University researchers who weighed in on a high-stakes debate between crop experts and scientists.* Record breaking heat in parts of American this last Memorial Day weekend:
The South was sweating through Memorial Day with temperatures hotter than an average summer day.
The region has been under a heat dome since Friday. That's when high pressure aloft acts like a lid trapping the heat below, setting the stage for potentially life-threatening conditions.Some locations, such as Columbia, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia, broke triple-digit temperature records Monday.
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