Since January 1, the global average temperature reached 15.1°Celsius (59.2°Fahrenheit), showing a record 1.46°C (2.63°F) increase from pre-industrial levels. This degree of warming surpassed that for the same period in 2016, the previous warmest year, the WMO says. Made up of 193 member...
Based on at least NOAA's and Copernicus' records, the past 12 months — February 2023 to January 2024 — was also the hottest 12-month period on record. Content continues below "Globally, the last 12 months were warmer than any previous consecutive twelve m...
News By Kiley Price published July 13, 2023 The world's average temperature was the hottest on record from July 3 to July 5, 2023. Climate change and El Niño are to blame, scientists say. Comments (0) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission...
The news comes hot on the heels of a record warm June. Earlier this week, the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, declared June 2023 to be the hottest on record for the country, with an average mean temperature of 15.8°C (60.44°F) for the month, which is...
(0.3 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the old record set in 2016. While that seems a small amount in global record-keeping, it's an exceptionally large margin for the new record, Burgess said. Earth's average temperature for 2023 was 14.98 degrees Celsius (58.96 degrees Fahrenheit), Copernicus...
The El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, as it is properly called, has three differentphases: Hot, cold or neutral. It is the most powerful fluctuation in the climate system anywhere on Earth. "The average global surface air temperature reaching 17C for the first time since we have reli...
At 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius), this reading was widely recognized as the highest recorded temperature. Over 100 years later, similar records have been set inside Death Valley, as well as in other places on this list. In July of 2023, the National Weather Service station at...
Globally averaged surface air temperature anomalies, relative to 1991–2020, for each November from 1940 to 2023.Data source: ERA5 / Credit: C3S/ECMWF And it wasn't just the air that was warmer last month, but the water too. Copernicus said that the average sea surface temperature for oce...
Shreveport wasn't messing around in 2023. Because the day after a record high temperature was recorded, it happened again. On August 26th, 2023 the high was tied for the hottest day ever in Shreveport...which had just been tied the day before too. That day we hit the highest ever recor...
"If current 2023 temperature anomalies are maintained, or increase, over the last four months of the year that would be sufficient for an annual record to be set," he said. On September 8, a separate database of global temperature run by the US...