The hottest temperature recorded in each state (Source: NOAA) Regardless of whether new high temperature records are set, heat should be taken seriously as it is the weather event that produces the most fatalities each year. Knowing the highest temperature that has been reached in your state may...
"Temperatures and extreme weather records have toppled one after the other around the globe in 2017," Steffen said in a media release on Friday. "Australians have been touched by soaring temperatures, with some regions in New South Wales and South Australia experiencing daytime temperatures nearing...
“This hot air mass is so extensive, the preliminary figures show that yesterday was the hottest day on record in Australia, beating out the previous record from 2013 and this heat will only intensify,” bureau meteorologist Diana Eadie said in a video statement on Wednesday. The weather bureau...
falsely claiming that this was likely some sort of ‘observational error’, as no other official weather stations recorded high temperatures on that day.
With consistent record-keeping beginning in 1900, Braganza explained that Australia's extreme weather in 2019 was being driven by a range of factors. "Most of this year, Australia's climate has been dominated by a very strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole, which acted to both warm and dry Aus...
Temperatures hit the low 40s in parts of southern Europe earlier this summer, sparking rare red weather alerts,droughts and wildfire warnings in parts of Greece and Italy. Records were set just last yearwith a temporary boost from an El Nino dialling up temperatures andextreme weather. ...
January has already broken temperature records, starting this year off on-course to break the global records set in 2023.
Alaska, Central Europe, northern and southwestern parts of Asia, and parts of Africa and Australia suffered the most intense departures from normal high temperatures, experiencing their hottest year to date. This summer has been marked globally by dangerous heat waves. A deadly heat wave gripped mo...
Last year also saw thehottest average ocean temperaturesyet recorded.EuropeandAustraliawere among the regions that experienced their warmest years in 2019. Zooming in further, Shahdad, Iran, hit its maximum 2019 temperature on July 2, clocking in at a whopping 127.6 degrees Fahrenheit. These numbers...
June 2019 was the hottest June ever recorded. Now that July has completed and the first batch of numbers are in, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), a program of the European Union,has officially released the details for July 2019. Was July 2019 the hottest month, as is being ...