Originally published by NOAA Climate.gov The first month of Northern Hemisphere spring 2021 was warmer than average across the globe according to the global climate summary for March 2021 from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. The combined land and ocean surface temperature was 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) warmer … [continued]
Earth endured exceptional heat last month, with October 2020 ranking as the 4th hottest October on record.
In many places, the heat waves of summer have begun, with record high temperatures making spring pass by in a flash. Around the corner are large storms, which clear out the air and sun but also more than that, often taking homes and life with them. What does the rapidly warming ocean waters mean in this calculus? Quite a lot.
The ocean plays a surprising role in fighting COVID-19. With death and infection numbers escalating daily, the World Health Organization has made it clear that countries need to do three things to successfully fight this pandemic: test, test and test.
2016 will be remembered for many things. One of them will be heat. It was the hottest year on record globally. While the world is still waiting for confirmation of just how high the record was, there’s a lot of data to digest from the US. Nearly every square inch of the country was dramatically warmer than normal.
The latest State of the Climate report published this week has confirmed that 2015 was not only the warmest year on record, but also saw several other records broken — records that we didn’t really want to see broken, despite it being an Olympic year. Published this week by the American … [continued]
