MIAMI, Florida-Last month was the hottest August in modern history, in the latest sign of an unusually warm year across the world’s land and sea surfaces, USA government scientists said Thursday.
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Last month was the hottest August ever recorded on Earth.
Global warming is like the steady climbing of stairs and then El Nino “is like standing on your tippy toes” while climbing those stairs, said Deke Arndt, global monitoring chief for NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. This year remains on track to beat the hottest on the books worldwide, crushing 136 years of records. Much of August’s warmth was driven by the world’s water.
Like a broken record, we are breaking records for temperature over and over and over again. It’s been 368 months in a row of above normal heat and it’s been more than 100 years since the planet had a record cold year.
Meteorologist Dave Epstein, who blogs for Boston.com, said it was a mostly ho-hum summer here as far as temperatures.
Epstein’s climate summary shows the average temperature in Boston was 64.7 in June, 73.9 in July and 74.7 in August, for a summer average of 71.1.
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Surface temperatures around the globe were 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit above their average for those months throughout the 20th century, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.
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The global average sea surface temperature also broke all records for the month, with much of the eastern and equatorial Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and parts of the Atlantic experiencing record warmth.
