![]() "Oceans also are key factors for regulation of climate by soaking up heat," says Rajiv Chowdhury, a global health and climate expert at Florida International University, but "these useful impacts on land temperature become far less impactful when the oceans heat." The central Atlantic, the birthing ground for hurricanes, also experienced off-the-charts heat, raising the risk of more intense storms this season. Some parts of the North Atlantic Ocean hovered 7 to 10☏ above the long-term average. Alarmed scientists rushed to protect or move coral nurseries to deeper, cooler water. Off the coast of Florida, temperatures at the sea surface topped 100☏. Unseasonably hot weather also settled in across the Southern Hemisphere even in the depths of winter, temperatures exceeded 100☏ in some parts of Chile and Argentina. Northwestern China experienced some of the hottest temperatures ever, topping 122☏. In the U.S., Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida posted their hottest months ever since NOAA started taking records in 1880. Intense heat waves gripped many regions of the world. July's record-breaking temperatures were not subtle. "The next few years will be the coolest of my life if the world continues to emit greenhouse gasses," Kapnick says. It's also part of a long, clear pattern of planetary warming going back decades, driven primarily by humans burning fossil fuels. The intensity of July's heat is certainly exceptional, says Sarah Kapnick, chief scientist and climate expert at NOAA who worked on the report. "I am rarely surprised, that's what my friends tell me. But this one, nearly half a degree Fahrenheit, was "bigger than any other jump we've seen." ![]() "Most records are set in terms of global temperature by a few hundredths of a degree," says Russell Vose, a climate expert at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The month is now officially the hottest July on record since record-taking began in the 1800s.Īnd it wasn't even close: the month was a whopping 0.4 ☏ warmer than the previous record set in 2019, and well over 2.1 ☏ hotter than the 20th century average. ![]() Human-driven climate change pushed global temperatures to never-before-seen heights in July, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. ![]()
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