Posted on 08/02/2019 8:42:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
According to the new data from the World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus Climate Change Programme, July at least equalled, if not surpassed, the hottest month in recorded history. This follows the warmest ever June on record.
The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Programme, run by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, is fed into the UN system by WMO. The figures show that, based on the first 29 days of the month, July 2019 will be on par with, and possibly marginally warmer than the previous warmest July, in 2016, which was also the warmest month ever.
The latest figures are particularly significant because July 2016 was during one of the strongest occurrence of the El Niño phenomenon, which contributes to heightened global temperatures. Unlike 2016, 2019 has not been marked by a strong El Niño.
“We have always lived through hot summers. But this is not the summer of our youth. This is not your grandfather’s summer,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, announcing the data in New York.
“All of this means that we are on track for the period from 2015 to 2019 to be the five hottest years on record. This year alone, we have seen temperature records shattered from New Delhi to Anchorage, from Paris to Santiago, from Adelaide and to the Arctic Circle. If we do not take action on climate change now, these extreme weather events are just the tip of the iceberg. And, indeed, the iceberg is also rapidly melting,” Mr Guterres said.
“Preventing irreversible climate disruption is the race of our lives, and for our lives. It is a race that we can and must win,” he underlined.
Heatwaves
Exceptional heat has been observed across the globe in recent week, with a string of European countries logging record highs temperatures that have caused disruption to transport and infrastructure and stress on people's health and the environment. As the heat dome spread northwards through Scandinavia and towards Greenland, it accelerated the already above average rate of ice melt.
“July has re-written climate history, with dozens of new temperature records at local, national and global level,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
“The extraordinary heat was accompanied by dramatic ice melt in Greenland, in the Arctic and on European glaciers. Unprecedented wildfires raged in the Arctic for the second consecutive month, devastating once pristine forests which used to absorb carbon dioxide and instead turning them into fiery sources of greenhouse gases. This is not science fiction. It is the reality of climate change. It is happening now and it will worsen in the future without urgent climate action,” Mr Taalas said.
“WMO expects that 2019 will be in the five top warmest years on record, and that 2015-2019 will be the warmest of any equivalent five-year period on record. Time is running out to reign in dangerous temperature increases with multiple impacts on our planet,” he said.
Such heatwaves are consistent with what we expect from climate change and rising global temperatures.
Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom saw new national temperature records on 25 July, as weather maps were redrawn to include – for the first time – temperatures of above 40°C. Paris recorded its hottest day on record, with a temperature of 42.6 °C at 16:32, an unprecedented value since the beginning of measurements.
The heatwave was caused by warm air coming up from North Africa and Spain and this was then transported from Central Europe to Scandinavia, Norway saw new station records on 27 July, and 28 locations had “tropical nights” above 20°C. The Finnish capital Helsinki set a new station record of 33.2°C on 28 July and in the south of Finland, Porvoo saw a temperature of 33.7°C.
The anomalously high temperatures are expected to enhance melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which already saw an extensive melt episode between 11 and 20 June. The persistent high melt and runoff in the last few weeks means the season total is running near tothe 2012 record high loss, according to Polar climate scientists monitoring the Greenland ice sheet.
The station Nord, situated 900 kilometres from the North Pole, measured a temperature of 16°C and in western Greenland, the station of Qaarsut (near 71°N) recorded a temperature of 20.6°C on 30 July. At Summit Camp station, at the peak of the ice sheet and at an altitude of 3200m, a temperature of 0.0°C was measured.
“It is important to remember that that any given day or year, Greenland ice sheet surface mass budget is a result largely of weather, though with the background climate trend affecting this,” tweeted Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.
ETC... too much to post.
The weather-proof that anything and everything can be politicized.
Total freaking B S.
I just spend the first half of this year chilled to the bone.
Exactly...
Just because Europe went through a heat wave doesn't imply a general change in climate. I can also recall a week in London, 1993, during Wimbledon that was brutally hot with the only relief deep in the Underground and a couple venues in Piccadilly. So even their weather this year is not at all unprecedented.
Hot or not, they definitely don't last very long. In a few weeks, we'll be raking leaves and sending our kids back to school.
The Great Big Giant Thermometer that's located in the Posterior of the World is reading 146 degrees Fahrenheit.
Maybe a 3-year-old transgender child can figure out something to save us all.
Yeah, you'd think that the reporter might have heard of the southern hemisphere, where it is the dead of winter right now.
Apparently this is just too difficult to check out what's going on in Australia.
Note for later: only Europe "counts" when it comes to global warming.
Yes, and the article fails to mention that 6 of the last 9 months were below average:
I know that this is anecdotal, but here in the Sacramento area we have had an unusually mild spring and summer. We only had one week in July with temperatures over 100 degrees, and had a number of days down in the 80’s, which is unheard of for this time of year. Same thing in June - temperatures much lower than normal with a few hot days mixed in here and there.
Will the EU send strongly worded letters to China and India and tell them to stop their evil “global warming” ways?
Fortunately, not in Texas. We barely cracked 100.
They ought to be grateful for the heat. If it weren’t for the Gulf Stream they’d be freezing. London and Brussels are around the same latitude as St. James Bay, Ontario.
This is just more fake news. It’s always hot in the summer. I live in Alabama and not been as hot as it was a few years ago.
Well what they hell do Libs think AC is for?-)
So cal was cooler too
July was the coolest I’ve seen in years where I live. Cool and mild.
when did they start keeping records.
The weather station in our county did not exist before 1928.
It was established for the airmail pilots. Those guys that flew biplanes at little more than tree top level following rotating beacons at night.
When I was a kid, there were barn roofs painted with the names of the nearest town and an arrow pointing in that direction to help pilots flying during daylight.
So I am supposed to believe that thermometers in use before that station was established were accurate within one degree?
Look at who wrote this crap article. When I saw that he spelled program programme, I knew what was coming.
Written by the guys that have already been exposed for doctoring the numbers for their own reasons.
I might add that to compare weather over a long period of time, the same thermometer placed in exactly the same spot with no changes in the surrounding areas would be required.
Temps recorded by George Washington and your grandfather are useless.
Just watch the temps on your car as you travel up or down small hills, or your side mirrors at night fog up with condensate and 2 miles later clear up as the temp rises.
Think about it and you can see how the con men give us bad information and do it legally.
Con men striving for government grants.
And don’t forget that the Russians did it.
BS
There are a couple of websites that are useful. One is electroverse.net This is a site with all kinds of news about extreme weather, earthquakes, etc. The writer’s take is that the lack of sunspots is causing the jetstream to go in extreme undulations, instead of the straight path round the globe it has had in the past. He also says that this lack of sunspots is an historically observable thing, that in the past when it’s occurred, we’ve had dips in temps. His take is that we are headed toward a mini ice age, such as what happened in the Maunder and Dalton minimums.
I go to this site, read the news, then check against weatherunderground.com to see if his temps and conditions match. Guess what? The do.
The other site is https://earth.nullschool.net/ This site provides a global map with chooseable parameters: temperature, wind, waves, etc., at different altitudes. Wind and 250 give you the jetstream, and you’ll see that the poor things is tattered and fragmented. There’s also a CO2 and SO2 concentration button. Guess what? The US is peanuts compared to...China and India.
Sorry if the links don’t show up blue....my html is weak these days.
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