June hottest month on record after successive 14-month rise
Thu 28 July 2016
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June 2016 was 0.9C hotter than the average for the 20th century, and the hottest June in the record which goes back to 1880 according to two US agencies, Nasa and NOAA, breaking the previous record set in 2015, by 0.02C. It is the 14th consecutive month of record-breaking heat.
The Guardian reported that the 14-months of record-breaking temperatures was the longest in the 137-year record. It is also 40 years since the world saw a June that was below the 20th century average.
The NOAA also spoke about what it calls the “monthly temperature departure” or record spikes in heat. It said 14 of 15 of these spikes have occurred since February 2015, signalling that global warming is accelerating. The land temperature also hit a record high for the first six months of the year.
NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt said that while the high temperatures are in part tied to the El Nino weather pattern -- related to warm waters in the Pacific Ocean -- around 60 percent comes from “other factors, including the very strong Arctic warming.”
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