2024 almost certain to be globe’s warmest year
means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.November 27, 2024: People watch as the sun rises over Ben Buckler Point in Sydney, Australia, during a severe November heatwave. Some locations around the state of New South Wales, Australia, saw high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s that week. Regionally, Oceania had its second-warmest November on record.
Last month also continued the year’s record-warm streak, with 2024 almost certain to end as the world’s warmest year on record, according to scientists and data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.The average global land and ocean surface temperature for November 2024 was 2.41 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 55.2 degrees F , which makes it the second-warmest November on record — just 0.14 of a degree F behind the record warmth of November 2023.
Asia had its warmest November on record, while Oceania and South America both had their second-warmest November.The year-to-date global land and ocean surface temperature was 2.30 degrees F above the 20th-century average, ranking as the warmest such YTD on record. Every continent had its warmest such YTD period on record, except for Asia, which had its second warmest.An annotated map of the world plotted with the most significant climate events of November 2024.
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