The summer of 2023 is behaving like a broken record about broken records. Nearly every major climate-tracking organisation proclaimed June the hottest June ever. Then Jul 4 became the globe's hot
, a tad more official, stamped into the books by the World Meteorological Organization and the Japanese Meteorological Agency., meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: A warming planet caused by climate change. It's a picture that comes in the vibrant reds and purples representing heat on daily weather maps online, in newspapers and on television.
“Records go back to the late 19th century and we can see that there has been a decade-on-decade increase in temperatures,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, keeper of the agency's climate records. Still, some local specifics are striking: Death Valley has flirted this summer with the hottest temperature in modern history, though that 134 degree Fahrenheit record is in dispute.
“I don’t think it captures the human sense, but it really does underscore that we live in a different world,” Field said of the records. El Nino is a natural temporary warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide and adds an extra warm boost. An El Nino formed in June and scientists say this one looks strong. For the previous three years El Nino’s cool flip side, La Nina, dampened a bit of the heat humans are causing.
NOAA tracks weather observations from tens of thousands of stations throughout the US and its global calculations incorporate data from more than 100,000 stations, Vose said.
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