Extreme Heat is Coming!

Melinda tried very hard not to cry in guilt, "I'm sorry Ms. Althea. The temperature has indeed been steadily rising for many days now and I was hoping to wait for a week's worth of data before reporting, but..." 

She paused and seemed to be on the verge of hyperventilating. Althea sighed, taking out a cup of water for her to drink. The girl gulped it down and resumed reporting. 

"But then the rise had increased all of a sudden," she continued. "Before, it was only a hundredth of a fraction of a centigrade every day, but yesterday it went up by an entire 0.1 degree.

So it had been warming up for a while, but like frogs being boiled slowly, they couldn't notice it. 

They had known from the aborigines that the weather in Xeno was relatively consistent (per geographical region) except for the massive spikes upwards or downwards of the weather every one or two years.