https://www.wunderground.com/article/news/climate/news/2020-11-13-october-global-climate-report
November 13, 2020
October 2020 was the Earth's 4th warmest October in 141 years of temperature records, according to a NOAA report, continuing a warming trend that keeps 2020 on pace for one of the warmest years dating to 1880.
NOAA's October Global State of the Climate Report released Friday found global land and ocean temperatures were 0.85 degrees Celsius (1.53 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average.
[Note that global warming started before the 20th century.]
This level of warmth was not felt everywhere across the globe.
In fact, the global warmth is especially notable this year because of the ongoing La Niña, a widespread cooling of the southern Pacific waters west of South America.
And if you're an American wondering where this October warm weather was, you are likely located in the central or northern part of the United States, which saw one of the coolest anomalies relative to the 20th-century average found anywhere on Earth. North America as a whole saw near-average temperatures.
Europe, though, had its warmest October on record with a temperature departure of +3.91°F (+2.17°C).
Africa, Asia and the Caribbean all saw a top-10 warmest October.
NASA's report showed even warmer conditions around the globe, with global land and ocean temperatures 0.90 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average.
Arctic sea ice extent, an important metric that is a proxy for measuring the immediate impact of climate change since the poles are warming faster than anywhere else, was also record low, according to an analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Only 1.19 million square miles of ice was found in October, well below the 1981-2010 average and just below the record set last year. Sea ice volume was also record low for the month.
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Should current trends continue, "the year 2020 is very likely to rank among the three warmest years on record," according to NOAA.
2 comments:
it was an unusually cold October in the US....a little over two weeks ago i posted EIA reports largest October natural gas storage draw on record; October's gas inventory build is smallest on record
i've got a map showing that Atlanta was the only hot spot..
Yes, I live in the Atlanta metro area, and we didn't get much of that cold that much of the U.S. got. More like the rest of the world.
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