From the Texas school massacre to a Tulsa hospital shooting and many less-reported incidents, a recent spate of gun violence across America bears out a trend police department have long sworn by: murders go up in warmer weather.
The link has been written about for decades by criminologists, with more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates.
While there are many causes behind the rising tide of gun violence in the United States, weather could play an increasingly important role in world that is fast warming due to climate change.Hemenway said he had long been interested in the relationship between heat and higher crime given stereotypes about the north-south divide within the United States and Italy, as well as between the northern European states of Scandinavia and southern Mediterranean countries.
They also found a 10°C higher than average temperature was associated with 33.8% higher rate of shootings. She and co-author Ghassan Hamra did indeed find violent crimes happened more often in the warmer months - May through September - and were highest on the hottest days.
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