🌡warmer than any previous May on record, at 0.65°C above the 1991-2020 average;
🌡 the 12th month in a row that is the warmest on record for the respective month of the year.
A saguaro cactus is seen during a 27-day-long heat wave with temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, July 26, 2023. A Flir One ProThermal camera registered a surface temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius), with an air temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius). REUTERS/Carlos Barria
The India Meteorological Department has issued a heatwave alert for Mysuru and surrounding regions forecasting daytime temperature higher than normal.
An orange alert has been issued as heatwaves are impacting the South region as well.
R to @EUClimateAction: Europe continues to warm at a faster pace than the global mean.
The average temperature for March 2024 was 2.12°C above the 1991-2020 average, making it the 2nd warmest March on record for the continent, only 0.02°C cooler than March 2014.
🌡warmer than any other March in the data record, at 0.73°C above the 1991-2020 average;
🌡the tenth month in a row that is the warmest on record for the respective month of the year.
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the #east#Antarctic#plateau documented a remarkable event.
They recorded 💥the #largest#jump in #temperature ever measured at a meteorological centre on Earth. 💥
According to their instruments, the region that day experienced a rise of 38.5C above its seasonal average: a world record.
This startling leap
– in the coldest place on the planet
– left polar researchers struggling for words to describe it.
“It is simply mind-boggling,” said Prof Michael Meredith, science leader at the British Antarctic Survey.
“In sub-zero temperatures such a massive leap is tolerable but if we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.”
This amazement was shared by glaciologist Prof Martin Siegert, of the University of Exeter.
“No one in our community thought that anything like this could ever happen. It is extraordinary and a real concern,” he told the Observer.
“We are now having to wrestle with something that is completely unprecedented.”
Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes
– including Australia
– deep into the continent, say scientists,
and these have been blamed for the dramatic polar “heatwave” that hit Concordia.
Exactly why these currents are now able to plunge so deep into the continent’s air space is not yet clear, however.
This spring, half the country will be able to consider growing #plants they couldn’t have in their backyard before. In Nov., the Ag Dept updated its Plant Hardiness Zone #Map for the first time since 2012. The map, which tracks the average annual extreme-minimum #winter#temperature across the US, showed average increase of 2.5⁰ F across the Lower 48 states with some states such as AR, KY, MO and TN increasing by as much as 5⁰.