Over the past few weeks a slow-moving weather event has led to record high temperatures across North America.

This kind of event is known as a heat dome, and it’s breaking existing models that try to predict the weather.

Today, journalist for The Saturday Paper Max Opray on why this particular heat even is alarming climate scientists, and what it means for the next Australian summer.

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Guest: Journalist for The Saturday Paper, Max Opray.

Background reading: Welcome to the heat dome in The Saturday Paper

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