The biggest newspaper in the Washington, D.C. area asks, “Did global warming intensify the derecho in Washington, D.C.?” It’s the same question the Washington Post brought up directly after the derecho thunderstorm struck the Washington area last Friday.

“The amount of energy available to this storm was extreme and , wundergound [sic] weather historian Chris Burt called the number of all-time heat records set around the time ‘especially extraordinary,'” writes Jason Samenow of the Post. “But as I wrote the day after the storm, connecting global warming to the derecho is a complicated and controversial question.”