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The last 12 months were the hottest in recorded history
Earth just experienced its hottest 12-month span in recorded history.
Copernicus ECMWF- ERA5 data from @CopernicusECMWF indicates that 17 November was the first day that the global temperature exceeded 2°C above pre-industrial levels, reaching 2.07°C above the 1850-1900 average and the provisional ERA5 value for 18 November is 2.06°C.
It was a record-setting day on many fronts for metro Phoenix. We started with a low of 97 degrees at Sky Harbor Airport. That’s the warmest low recorded in Phoenix since they began taking weather measurements in 1895. The previous record, 96, was set on July 15th, 2003. One can only wonder when the first low of 100 will be recorded in Phoenix. Also, Phoenix reached a high of 119 degrees.
That set a record for today’s date, which was 116 degrees. That record went back to 1989. And, of course, we extended the number of days straight with a high of 110 degrees or more to 20 days. That heat streak could last into the middle of next week.
Zeke Hausfather - November 2023 is now virtually certain to be the warmest November on record, at around 1.6C above preindustrial levels: https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1728849050529927249
Zeke Hausfather - It is now official: November was the warmest November on record by a wide margin in the JRA-55 dataset, beating the prior record set in 2020 by 0.3C.
November 2023 was 1.6C above preindustrial levels, and the year-to-date temperatures are 1.4C above preindustrial.: https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1731078958291284359
More than a third of days in 2023 were more than 1.5°C above preindustrial level
Game over!
We have reached the point of no return. They are just having a hard time admitting it.
It’s official: 2023 is Australia’s hottest year on record
Penrith in New South Wales has just hit 40.7C – and today’s extreme heat has helped 2023 to become the hottest year on record, says the Climate Council.
“2023 has officially been declared as the hottest year on record, weeks before the year’s end”, tweeted the council.
Earlier, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the heatwave was “a reminder that there just might be something in this climate change stuff”.
Climate Council - BREAKING: 2023 has officially been declared as the hottest year on record, weeks before the year’s end. The broken record comes as a heatwave scorches large swathes of the country, threatening to push temperatures into the 40℃s in Sydney. https://twitter.com/climatecouncil/s...81165513154580
43 degrees at Sydney Airport two and a half hours ago.
Thomas Saunders - As of today it is now the warmest start to summer on record for #Sydney. We are averaging over 29C for maximums - four above the long term average. Western suburbs have averaged up to 34C. #heatwave #NSW: https://twitter.com/TomSaundersABC/s...09334357655990
Mika Rantanen - Malaga airport has just reached 29.4°C, smashing its December heat record by an unprecedented margin.
The previous record of 24.6°C (from 1998) was beaten by almost 5 degrees.: https://twitter.com/mikarantane/stat...02860544086075
Heatwave Marks the Start of Summer
An ongoing heatwave across New South Wales has set a new record for the hottest start to summer in parts of Sydney, with maximum temperatures reaching up to 5 degrees Celsius above normal. This extreme heat, believed to be induced by El Niño, has seen temperatures in some suburbs hit record highs. Coupled with stifling humidity that impedes the body’s natural cooling mechanism, this prolonged heat spell is expected to persist in the run-up to Christmas, keeping temperatures above average for at least the coming week.
Record-Breaking Temperatures in Dubbo
In Dubbo, residents are enduring the hottest start to summer in at least a century, with temperatures averaging about four degrees hotter than usual. The lead-up to Christmas is predicted to be warmer than average, with a chance of showers and storms on Christmas Day. The average temperature in Dubbo so far in December is 27.4 degrees, which is four degrees higher than the long-term average. In addition to the heat, the town could see up to 30 millimeters of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, with more showers and high humidity expected in the days leading up to Christmas.
Much of Japan basked in summer temperatures despite the calendar showing there are only 10 days to go before Christmas.
As of 3 : 10 p.m., 21 observation points around the nation had clocked record high temperatures for December, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Dec. 16.
Unusually warm weather has persisted following the hottest summer in Japan on record.
The mercury reached a high of 26.2 degrees in Yokoshibahikari, Chiba Prefecture; 26 degrees in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture; and 25.5 degrees in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture.
Record temperatures were also observed Dec. 15 at 57 locations around Japan, including 25.6 degrees in Miyazaki city on the main southern island of Kyushu. The last time the day’s high there exceeded 25 degrees in December was 133 years ago.
Argentina broke records for heat and cold within a short window of just five days this week, with temperatures plummeting a jaw-dropping 30 degrees Celsius as a heatwave gave way to historic snowfalls.
A cold front from Patagonia caused temperatures in Buenos Aires to drop from a high of 38.1 degrees Celsius (100.6 degrees Fahrenheit) last Sunday to only 7.9 degrees Celsius (46.2F) on Thursday – a record low for the month of February since 1951, the National Meteorological Service reported.
The lowest ever was 4.2 degrees Celsius in 1910.
The South American country this week battled its eighth heat wave so far this summer with temperatures shooting up to nearly 40C (104F) in the center and north.
Well, not like it's the end of the world.
Major weather stations in November: 23 all-time heat records, no all-time cold records
Among global stations with a record of at least 40 years, 23 set, not just tied, an all-time heat record in November, and no stations set an all-time cold record:
Caico (Brazil) max. 40.2°C, November 5
San Jose de Chiquitos (Bolivia) max. 44.1°C, November 8
Las Lomitas (Argentina) max. 46.0°C, November 8
Concepcion (Paraguay) max. 43.5°C, November 8
Prats Gill (Paraguay) max. 45.4°C, November 8
Nueva Asuncion (Paraguay) max. 44.9°C, November 8
Robore (Bolivia) max. 42.6°C, November 9
Aquidauana (Brazil) max. 41.5°C, November 12
General Bruguez (Paraguay) max. 43.8°C, November 12
Yacuiba (Bolivia) max. 44.9°C, November 12
Alegre (Brazil) max. 41.6°C, November 13
Itapira (Brazil) max. 39.2°C, November 14
Campos do Jordao (Brazil) max. 31.0°C, November 14
Florestal (Brazil) max. 38.6°C, November 14
Puerto Suarez (Bolivia) max. 43.5°C, November 16
Cochabamba (Bolivia) max. 36.2°C, November 17
Xerem (Brazil) max. 42.3°C, November 18
Alegre (Brazil) max. 41.8 °C, November 18
Governador Valadares (Brazil) max. 41.7 °C, November 18
Muriae (Brazil) max. 41.2°C, November 18
Salinas (Brazil) max. 42.7°C, November 19
Majunga (Madagascar) max. 39.0°C, November 21
Waingapu (Indonesia) max. 37.3°C, November 22
Twenty-one all-time national/territorial heat records set or tied in 2023
Thailand: 45.4°C (113.7°F) at Tak Agromet, April 15
Laos: 42.7°C (108.9°F) at Luang Prabang, April 18; beaten one day later with 42.9°C (109.2°F) at Sayaburi, April 19; beaten again on May 6 and May 7 with 43.5°C (110.3°F) at Luang Prabang
Vietnam: 44.1°C (111.4°F) at Hoi Xuan, May 6; beaten again with 44.2°C (111.6°F) at Tuong Duong, May 7
Singapore: 37.0°C (98.6°F) at Ang Mo Kio, May 13 (tie)
Chad: 48.0°C (118.4°F) at Faya, May 25; tied again on June 16
China: 52.2°C (126°F) at Sabao, July 16
Vatican City: 42.9°C (109.2°F) at Roma Macao, July 18
Cayman Islands: 35.3°C (95.5°F) at Owen Roberts airport, July 22
Albania: 44.0°C (111.2°F) at Kucova, July 25
Morocco: 50.4°C (122.7°F) at Agadir, August 11
U.S. Virgin Islands (U.S.): 35.6°C (96.1°F) at St. Croix, August 14 (tie); beaten on September 9 with 36.1°C (97°F) at St. Croix
Dominica: 36.6°C (97.9°F) at Canefield Airport, August 27
Aruba: 36.5°C (97.7°F) at Queen Beatrix Airport, August 28 (tie)
Saba: 34.4°C (93.9°F) at Juancho Yrausquin Airport, August 29; tied again on September 8
Martinique (France): 36.6°C (97.9°F) at Ducos, September 15
St. Barthelemy (France): 35.5°C (95.9°F) at Gustavia, September 15 (tie)
French Guiana (France): 38.1°C (100.6°F) at Grand Santi, September 15; beaten on September 25 with 38.8°C (101.8°F) at St. Laurent do Moroni; beaten again with 39.1°C (102.4°F) at Grand Santi, October 14
Guyana: 40.1°C (104.2°F) at Ebini, September 26
Peru: 41.4°C (106.5°F) at Tingo de Ponaza, September 27; beaten again with 41.6°C (106.9°F) at Inapari, October 7
Suriname: 38°C (100.4°F) at Zanderj Airport, September 30 (tie)
Barbados: 35.6°C (96.1°F) at Bridgetown, September 30
With the daytime temperature reaching 6 C in Ottawa on Monday, today is the warmest Dec. 18 in over 130 years.
The temperature reached a high of 5.9 C at 10 a.m. in Ottawa.
Environment Canada's historical averages(opens in a new tab) show the city beat the previous record of 5.6 C recorded in 1895 and 1921.
That makes it the highest temperature since record keeping began in 1938 at Ottawa's international airport and between 1889 and 1938 at the Central Experimental Farm
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Forget the chance of a white Christmas in the Midwest and much of the East this year. Instead, record warmth is on tap.
Christmas History Made: Record High Falls in Rochester
Rochester, MN - The weather over the Christmas holiday was historic in Rochester this year.
That’s according to the National Weather Service, which is indicating the Rochester area saw the warmest highs ever recorded since record keeping began in the city in 1886.
Christmas Eve day and Christmas Eve night also saw record-setting temperatures. Some of the records broken had stood since 1936.
The high reported at the Rochester Airport reached 50 on Christmas Eve Day. That breaks the previous record high of 41 set back in 2021.
A VILLAGE in Somerset recorded the highest temperature in the nation, as the Met Office recorded the highest daily minimum temperature for Christmas Day since 2016.
Temperatures rose to a tropical 13.6 degrees Celsius near RAF Merryfield, located in Ilton near Ilminster.
It was the highest temperature recorded in the UK on December 25, alongside Exeter Airport, which also reached 13.6C.
The average maximum temperature for December is 7C.
Unseasonably warm weather has broken temperature records in southern British Columbia, including century-old marks in the provincial capital.
Multiple records fell on Wednesday at weather stations throughout Greater Victoria, where a high of 12.9 degrees surpassed a record set in 1922.
Environment Canada says high temperature marks were also broken in West Vancouver, where the mercury hit 14 degrees and shattered a 1986 high by 2.5 degrees, and White Rock where the high of 13.5 degrees broke a record standing for 88 years.
Records were also set in Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast, with 13.7 degrees, and as far afield as Osoyoos in the Interior, with 6.9 degrees.
BROOKS, AB – It may be near the end of December, but it certainly does not feel like winter in many parts of Alberta.
Environment Canada reports that three communities in the province had their warmest December 28ths on record.
Brooks got the warmest with a daily maximum temperature of 13.3 degrees Celsius. That barely inched past the previous record of 13.2 set in 1999.
In Onefour, a research substation in the southeastern corner of Alberta, it got as hot as 12.4 degrees, surpassing the 1956 record of 12.2.
Jasper was a bit cooler at 9.2 degrees, although it was enough to topple the old record of 6.8 set in 1980.
- Marble Bar: Temperatures hit all-time scorching high in hottest town in Australia
The temperature has hit an all-time high in Marble Bar, with a scorching 49C recorded at the local weather station late on Saturday afternoon.
Although the Pilbara town regularly sweats through sweltering weather, the Bureau of Meteorology-managed weather station in the outback town struck a record-breaking top of 49.3C at 3.56pm on Saturday — the hottest December day in WA on record.
In town, locals posed in front of the Marble Bar RSL’s weather sign that put the temperature at a sizzling 51C.
Humans have just experienced what will go down as the hottest year in recorded history -- so far -- as the planet experienced heating at an unprecedented pace.
Here are some of the most consequential stories of extreme heat from 2023:
Record stretches of triple-digit temperatures
Summer 2023 brought unparalleled stretches of triple-digit temperatures throughout the southern U.S.
El Paso, Texas, saw a record stretch of 44 consecutive days at or over 100 degrees in June and July, smashing the previous record of 23 consecutive days set in 1994, records show.
Phoenix, Arizona, saw a record-shattering stretch of 31 days at 110 degrees or greater, surpassing the previous record of 18 consecutive days.
Death Valley National Park saw 17 consecutive days over 120 degrees, from July 14 to July 30, according to the National Park Service.
Worldwide, the planet reached its hottest day ever recorded for four days in a row in July.
Extraordinary marine temperatures
Before this past summer, 2022 was the ocean's warmest year on record. But in the summer of 2023, it managed to surpass that record.
Ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida soared to 101 degrees at the hottest points in the summer.
Marine temperatures began heating up early in the season. By July, temperatures were 4 degrees to 7 degrees above average for that time of year, which proved fatal for much of the coral reef in the area.
A mass coral bleaching event occurred in Florida during that time, followed by the rest of the Caribbean shortly after.
Record melting at the poles
Scientists have been keeping a close eye on melting in the poles due to the regions' ability to cause drastic sea level rise.
In February, Antarctica's sea ice extent, which serves as a buffer for some of the largest melting glaciers, reached a record low for the year.
By August, Antarctica saw its fourth consecutive month with the lowest sea ice extent on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In October, the ozone hole over Antarctica grew to one of the largest on record, and a study published that same month found that it may be too late to prevent significant melting on the West Antarctic ice shelf that includes Thwaites, known as the "Doomsday Glacier" because its melting could cause global sea levels to rise by about 10 feet, according to climate scientists.
This year marked the hottest summer on record for the Arctic.
The Arctic is warming two to three times faster than the global average, which already dramatically affecting Arctic ecosystems, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2023 Arctic Report Card.
One record-breaking month after another
Several months in 2023 broke records for being the warmest-ever on Earth, researchers said.
June was the warmest on record. July was the hottest month ever recorded. August was the warmest on record. September was the warmest on record. October was the warmest-ever recorded.
The emergence of autumn did not bring relief to high temperatures.
On Nov. 7, Amarillo, Texas, hit an all-time November high at 88 degrees, while temperatures in Hollis, Oklahoma, soared to 95 degrees -- the hottest temperature in the state so late in the season, according to the National Weather Service.
The abnormally warm conditions then spread to the eastern seaboard, bringing temperatures in the 80s as far north as Virginia.
For the first time on record, the global average temperature surpassed 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels on Nov. 17, according to a preliminary analysis from Copernicus, Europe's climate change service.
This past November was also the warmest on record, while September to November 2023 was the warmest autumn on record for the Northern Hemisphere, according to a report by Copernicus.
It’s the sun, innit.
This preoccupation with doom is really becoming a fucking bore. There’s nowt that can be done and there it is. Weather is dynamic, the balance between oxygen and CO2 in the atmosphere is a perennial phenomenon and nothing lasts forever.
This incessant fucking moaning and silly eco neurosis is unhealthy.
Thd fact is, we are in the golden period in the evolution of our solar system, just enjoy it.
The current Age of The Stupid is much more worrying.
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Zeke Hausfather - December 2023 is now certain to be the warmest December on record in the JRA-55 dataset, beating the prior record by over 0.2C. It will end just below September as the second highest anomaly of the year (with respect to an 1850-1900 baseline period). https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1741917028540387467
Zeke Hausfather - Here is what December 2023 will look like compared to all the other Decembers in the JRA-55 record: https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1741917033242267791
The UK had its second-hottest year on record in 2023, according to provisional data from the Met Office, as the climate crisis continued to deliver elevated temperatures.
Such a warm year would have occurred only once in 500 years without human-caused global heating, the scientists said. The heat peaked in June and September, both record hot months in a series dating back to 1884. The UK’s 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2003.
The U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico experienced interesting and significant weather events throughout 2023. A preliminary report released by the National Weather Service (NWS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, noted that several weather-related records, predominantly temperature records, were shattered across both territories.
Heat-related weather events were striking across the USVI. Weather observations obtained at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport on St. Croix showed that the island registered its warmest year ever, with an average temperature of 82.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
https://stthomassource.com/content/2...d-puerto-rico/
2023 marked Germany's hottest year since records began in 1881, according to preliminary analyses by meteorological service DWD. The year's average temperature reached 10.6 degrees Celsius, 1.3°C higher than the reference period 1991 to 2020.
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‘Off the charts’: 2023 was hottest year ever recorded globally, US scientists confirm
Noaa calculated that last year’s global temperature was 1.35C (2.4F) hotter, on average, than the pre-industrial era, which is slightly less than the 1.48C (2.6F) increase that EU scientists, who also found 2023 was the hottest on record, came up with due to slightly different methodologies.
A separate analysis of 2023 released on Friday by Berkeley Earth has the year at 1.54C above pre-industrial times, which is above the 1.5C (2.7F) warming limit that countries have agreed to keep to in order to avoid disastrous global heating impacts. This guardrail will need to be broken on a consistent basis, rather than one year, to be considered fully breached, however.
The burning of fossil fuels and deforestation has driven the extraordinary warmth, which follows a string of hotter-than-average years in recent decades. Each decade over the past 40 years has been warmer than the last, Noaa said, with the most recent 10 years all making up the hottest 10 years ever recorded. Last year’s record heat was further spurred by El Niño, a periodic climatic event that heats up parts of the Pacific Ocean and heightens global temperatures.
Romania Records Warmest Year in 2023, Reaffirms Climate Commitment
Romania, in 2023, recorded its warmest year since the beginning of meteorological measurements, with the average temperature hitting an unprecedented 12.5 degrees Celsius. This figure represents a significant thermal deviation of 2.3 degrees from the prevailing averages of the 1981-2010 period. This record-breaking heat also led to the country experiencing its warmest Christmas to date, with temperatures soaring to 17 degrees Celsius.
The small West Australian town of Paraburdoo hit its highest recorded temperature of 48.1 degrees Celsius on Sunday, passing a record previously set in 1998.
It comes amid an extreme heatwave in parts of the Pilbara region, with some areas forecast to get close to 50C.
The heatwave is expected to continue until Tuesday and residents throughout the Shire of Ashburton, north Gascoyne and Midwest have been urged to take necessary precautions.
With a forecast for 48C on Sunday, Paraburdoo, which sits 1,500 kilometres north of Perth and has a population of 1,300, broke its record twice in one weekend after hitting 47.9C on Saturday.
2023: Warmest Year Recorded in Bulgaria since 1930
According to a preliminary estimate of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) published on Friday, the average annual temperature for 2023 in Bulgaria was 12.9C - the warmest year recorded in the country since 1930.
Forest fires burn in Colombia amid record heat
At least 21 forest fires are burning in Colombia as it endures record temperatures, in some cases prompting wild animals to seek shelter in urban areas, authorities said Wednesday.
Nine towns in the north, center and east of Colombia posted record temperatures Tuesday of up to 40.4 degrees Celsius (105 Fahrenheit).
An outback town has recorded Queensland's hottest January day of all time and cemented its ranking as one of the top four warmest locations in Australia.
The town also recorded its hottest-ever overnight temperature, when the mercury failed to fall below 35.2C on Tuesday night.