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What was the hottest month 2020?
July
D. “July is typically the world’s warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded. This new record adds to the disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe.”
Was 2020 a warm year?
It’s official: 2020 ranks as the second-hottest year on record for the planet, knocking 2019 down to third hottest, according to an analysis by NOAA scientists.
Is 2020 hotter than normal?
For the year to date, both NASA and Berkeley Earth rank 2020 as the second warmest globally, a shade behind 2016. To put this into perspective, the world’s five warmest years on record have all occurred since 2015, with 2020 highly likely to continue that trend.
Is summer 2021 hotter than normal?
According to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), July 2021 was Earth’s hottest month on record going back 142 years, beating the previous record for July set in 2016 and tied in 2019 and 2020.
How hot is it in July?
July is the hottest month of the year for most large US cities. Daytime temperatures above 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius) regularly occur nearly everywhere. The exceptions are cities along the Pacific coast.
What is the global temperature 2020?
Details. Averaged across land and ocean, the 2020 surface temperature was 1.76° F (0.98° Celsius) warmer than the twentieth-century average and 2.14˚F (1.19˚C) warmer than the pre-industrial period (1880-1900).
What was the weather like in summer 2020?
Overall, summer 2020 was warmer, wetter and duller than average with June, July and August all seeing some settled, hot spells. The highest temperature of the summer, 37.8°C, was recorded at Heathrow Airport on 31st July 2020; this made it the third hottest day ever recorded in the UK.
Was October 3rd 2019 the UK’s hottest day ever?
October 3rd was an exceptionally wet day with enough rain falling across the country to fill Loch Ness. Dr Mark McCarthy said: “In climate statistics, 2019 will be remembered for the UK’s hottest day, whereas 2020 will be associated with rainfall records.
Will 2020 be the wettest day on record in the UK?
Dr Mark McCarthy said: “In climate statistics, 2019 will be remembered for the UK’s hottest day, whereas 2020 will be associated with rainfall records. Saturday 3 October, the day which followed Storm Alex, provisionally holds the record for the UK’s wettest day on record, in data stretching back to 1891 – that’s over 47,000 days.
What was Winter 2019/20 like in the UK?
Winter 2019/20 was the 5th wettest on record (data back to 1862) for the UK, as well as the 5th mildest. The strong jet stream high in the atmosphere, was directed toward the UK and allowed a succession of Atlantic low pressure systems to push across the UK, including named Storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge, bringing wet and windy weather in February.