(5 of 5) SEE: World map plotted with October 2021 Global Significant Climate Events from NOAANCEI at: StateOfClimate
A collage of typical climate and weather-related events: floods, heatwaves, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and loss of glacial ice.
October 2021 ranked as the fourth-warmest October in 142 years, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Looking at just land temperature, the Northern Hemisphere hit a new high and logged its warmest October on record.The average global land and ocean surface temperature in October was 1.60 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 57.2 degrees F , making it the fourth-warmest October in the global climate record. The unusual warmth across the Northern Hemisphere’s land area resulted in the warmest October land temperature on record.
A map of the world plotted with some of the most significant climate events that occurred during October 2021. Please see the story below as well as more details in the report summary from NOAA NCEI at https://bit.ly/Global202110.offsite link , the October 2021 Arctic sea ice extent was 61,000 square miles below average, tying with 2017 as the eighth-smallest October extent in the 43-year record. Antarctic sea ice coverage last month was 180,000 square miles below average, ranking as the fourth-smallest October sea ice coverage on record. Only the Octobers of 1984, 1986, and 2016 had a smaller sea ice extent. The total number of named global tropical storms for the YTD is 86, which is above normal for the first 10 months of the year.
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