The State of the Climate in 2014 report compiled by NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate at the National Centers for Environmental Information has confirmed that the year 2014 was the hottest year on record based on insights and data from 413 scientists from 58 countries around the world.
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Off-the-charts heat is ‘getting to be a monthly thing, ‘ said Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Commonly temperature information are broken by one or two a person-hundredths of a degree, not just about a quarter of a degree, Blunden stated.
The previous high for the month of June was set in 2014, NOAA said.
Record warm temperatures across a swath of the northeast, central and southwest Pacific Ocean basins, as well as parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, western Caribbean Sea, southern Mexico, northern Scandinavia, Barents Sea, northern and central Argentina contributed to the anomalous January-June 2015, according to NOAA. For the first six months of the year, the global land and ocean surface average temperaure was 1.53 degrees above the 20th century average, beating the 2010 record by 0.16 degrees Fahrenheit.
Going back to the start of 2014, NOAA found 10 of the 18 months set or tied their respective month’s global warmth record, at the time.
The June global reading was the fourth-highest monthly departure from average for any month on record, with the greatest departures from average during February and March of this year, which were both 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average. El Nino is partly to blame, but isn’t enough to be exclusively responsible. Only June 1933 was hotter. One other data source on warming temperatures Of interest was an article in the Daily Caller on July 17, 2015. The variety of indicators shows us how our climate is changing, not just in temperature but from the depths of the oceans to the outer atmosphere.
‘This is the third month this year that we’ve broken the monthly record.’.
The record heat in June played out across the globe, with Australia seeing its highest temperatures since 1996 and Alaska experiencing heat not seen since records began there in 1918. The 0.01 C difference between 2014 and 2005, or the 0.02 difference with 2013 are not statistically different from zero.
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Conversely, NOAA said a late June cold outbreak in New Zealand lead to the coldest temperatures, there, in 20 years, including a teeth-chattering June 24th low of -21 degrees Celsius (-5.8 degrees Fahrenheit) at Tara Hills.
