you would expect in a world where Earth's average surface temperature is showing trend increases that daily high temperature records would be set from time to time.
and so it happened with scorching temperatures around mid July across Europe, Russia and China - but not just a few records here and there.
in a monthly climate roundup issued Friday, US-based meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson told of an "astonishing 329 weather stations with long-term periods of record broke (not just tied) their all-time high temperature records" in July.
these records were set at global weather stations with at least 40 years of records, including 89 stations in the UK, they wrote in yaleclimateconnections.org weekly roundup.
here are some key excerpts from their article.
"July 2022 was Earth’s sixth warmest July on record since global record-keeping began in 1880, 0.87 degrees Celsius (1.57°F) above the 20th-century average, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, reported on August 12.
"NASA rated the month as tied for the third warmest on record, 1.12 degrees Celsius (2.02°F) above the 1880-1920 period, its best estimate for when preindustrial temperatures last occurred.
"The European Copernicus Climate Change Service rated July 2022 as one of the three warmest Julys on record, marginally cooler than July 2019 and marginally warmer than July 2016.
"Minor differences in the agencies’ rankings can result from the different ways they treat data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.
"Land areas had their second-warmest July on record in 2022, with global ocean temperatures the seventh-warmest on record, according to NOAA.
"The year-to-date global surface temperature has been the sixth-highest on record, and the year 2022 is more than 99% likely to rank among the 10 warmest years on record, according to NOAA.
"Arctic sea ice: 12th-lowest July extent on record
"Arctic sea ice extent during July 2022 was the 12th-lowest in the 44-year satellite record, and the extent as of August 1 was the highest for that date since 2014, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, or NSIDC.
"Antarctic sea ice extent in July was the lowest for any July on record, beating out 2019. Antarctic sea ice extent tended to increase slightly from the 1980s through the 2010s, but it has decreased notably from 2017 onward, whereas Arctic sea ice extent has decreased more consistently and dramatically over the past 40 years."
