July 23, 2017

Heatwaves will affect many airflights



Inside Climate News -A study published Thursday in the journal Climatic Change looked at 19 airports around the world and found that rising temperatures will make it harder for airplanes to take off. During especially hot periods, airplanes will likely have to reduce the amount of weight they can carry in order to get airborne. 

"Heat waves are going to become much more frequent and intense in the future," said Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and co-author of the report. "We're already seeing planes unable to take off at full weight."

The situation will get especially troublesome at certain airports, including New York's LaGuardia and Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National, which have shorter runways, and the Dubai International Airport, where temperatures regularly hover above 110 degrees.

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