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Texas is predicted to go from 60 dangerous heat days per year to 115 heat days per year by 2050. I doubt that's a good thing. And 5 years isn't enough to establish what the trend is, a countercyclical trend for 5 year can happen by random or via any of the multidecadal climate cycles.

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There is no way to predict that. We can't even predict how many there will be this year or the next 5 years, let alone decades from now.

This is the difference between climate and weather. You can very easily predict that there will be on average x amount of days over, say, 100 deg. Predicting which days, however, is not really possible.

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