Large margin
Exciting.
Last month shattered the record for the hottest September on record by such a wide margin that climate scientists say it was almost beyond belief.
The September milestone, reported in new data released late Wednesday by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, added to an alarming stretch of record-breaking global temperatures. During June, July and August, the planet had its hottest summer on record “by a large margin.”
September’s temperatures have climate scientists even more stunned.
“This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist — absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” Zeke Hausfather, the climate research lead for the financial services company Stripe, wrote Tuesday on X.
Frog. Pot. You know the rest.
An October heat wave is baking Western Europe, with temperatures soaring well above 90 F in parts of France and Spain. And in the Southern Hemisphere, unseasonably warm temperatures have been recorded across South America and Australia, all coming on the heels of multiple bouts of extreme heat in previous months, during what should have been the winter season in that part of the world.
We meant well.
We’ve had 80s F here in SE Michigan the last few days.
And there’s this: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/warming-great-lakes-climate-triage-means-some-cold-waters-wont-be-saved
Record heat recently, and the summer as a whole here in MN too:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/10/02/unprecedented-lateseason-heat-wave-topples-records
@thedudediogenes – I was on my way to start the Marathon on Sunday when a friend called to inform me it had been canceled due to heat and humidiy.
In Minnesota. On October 1.
But just so people understand that global warming leads to climate uncertainty and unpredictability, I have just received word that a group motorcycle ride (also in Minnesota) was canceled for this Saturday, due to cold weather. (We don’t ride, as a rule, if the temp gets below 50F. It’s forecast to be 35F Saturday morning.
In Australia we’ve had fires and floods this week, as well as weather warm enough to wear just one layer and have the front door open, when usually we’d have the door closed, heater on, two or more layers on, with warm slippers.