Extreme heat is persisting in the Western U.S.
Summer 2024 was the warmest on record in the Northern Hemisphere, according to latest Copernicus reportA person experiencing homelessness splashes his face with water from a bucket in Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2024.For the second year in a row, summer in the Northern Hemisphere ranked as the warmest on record with extreme heat bringing persistent, dangerously hot conditions across several continents, according to a new report by Copernicus, the European Union's Climate Change Service.
A person experiencing homelessness splashes his face with water from a bucket in Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2024.Extreme last-season heat is impacting major cities up and down the West Coast. Heat alerts were in effect across parts of six western states, from Arizona to Washington on Wednesday, including more than 65 million Americans. Several major cities could see records challenged in the coming days.
Researchers at Copernicus said that it remains likely that 2024 is going to be the warmest year on record, beating out the new record set just last year. The year-to-date global average temperature anomaly through the end of August currently ranks .23 degrees Celsius, or .41 degrees Fahrenheit, warmer than the same period in 2023.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
The global average temperature over the past twelve months, September 2023 through August 2024, was 1.64 degrees Celsius, or 2.95 degrees Fahrenheit above the pre-industrial average, the report found. Pedestrians use an umbrella to shield from the sun and a portable fan as they wait to cross a road in Seoul, South Korea Aug.14, 2024.Global daily sea surface temperatures across most of the world’s oceans remain well above average. The average global sea surface temperature for August 2024, between the latitudes of 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north, was 69.
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