By Charlize Althea Garcia, Sep. 24, 2024
Out of breath. Sweat everywhere. Dehydrated. That 10 minute walk from the parking lot to a class. These oppressive temperatures did not exactly bode well for students of Cal Poly Pomona. And that walk will only get worse. With record-breaking temperatures, summer 2024 was the hottest summer to date.
From June to August, the meteorological summer, the average temperature across the U.S. was 73.8 degrees, 2.5 degrees above average. Southern California, along with the rest of the world, has gone into an upward trend in temperature since 1850 with an average of 0.11 Fahrenheit per decade. 1982 had a rate of warming three times as fast, 0.36 Fahrenheit per decade. …