The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday (8 May).
"This string of record temperatures is increasing the likelihood of 2024 being the hottest year on record. "The temperature-related extreme events witnessed this summer will only become more intense, with more devastating consequences for people and the planet unless we take urgent action to reduce ...
Paris— The World Meteorological Organization said Monday that early data show the beginning of July saw thehottest week on recordglobally. "The world just had the hottest week on record, according to preliminary data," the WMO said in a statement afterclimate changeand the early stages of the...
C3S said that from January to October, the average global temperature had been so high that 2024 was sure to be the world's hottest year - unless the temperature anomaly in the rest of the year plunged to near-zero. "The fundamental, underpinning caus...
2023 on track to be world's hottest year on record, temperatures exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for first time
Scientists said it was possible that Tuesday or Wednesday of this week could again surpass Monday's record, as temperature peaks generally happen in clusters. The last record hot day was in July 2023, when the daily peak was broken across four conse...
The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record, according to the European Union's climate monitor, extending an alarming run of temperature records that has put the planet firmly on course to notch its hottest year in human history. The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)saidon Frida...
One of the reasons Death Valley has the hottest temperature ever recorded is because it is approximately 190 ft below the sea level, and air warms as it gets lower. In addition to this, there is less than three inches of rain in the desert valley each year. ...
The world has now marked one full year of back-to-back monthlyheat records, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced on Wednesday. It said last month was the hottest May in recorded history — the 12th consecutive month in which the monthly high temperature record was ...
The exceptional heat increases the likelihood that 2024 will outrank 2023 as the planet’s warmest year on record. "During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal...