A new NASA study projects that the eastern United States may see summer temperatures rise by 10 degrees by 2080 if carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow."There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less-than-average frequent rainfall," according to lead study author Barry Lynn of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York City.
In drier summers, July and August temperatures in Atlanta, Chicago and Washington, D.C., could regularly peak at between 100 and 110 degrees every day, the study finds.
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