Last month was the hottest August ever recorded, as year of climate extremes continues

Multiple warmth data have been shattered this summer time.

Last month was the most popular August ever recorded, in line with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data stretching again 174 years. The three-month interval from June to August was additionally the most popular ever, the NOAA mentioned on Thursday, and encompassed the most popular meteorological winter ever for the Southern Hemisphere.

Global sea floor temperatures have been the best for any August on file, and it was the fifth month in a row the place world ocean sea floor temperatures set new highs for every respective month.

The sea floor temperature anomaly, or measurement of the departure from a long-term common, for August 2023 was additionally the biggest anomaly on file.

Finally, sea ice extent in August hit a file low for all Augusts on file, 550,000 sq. miles under the earlier file set in August 2019. Sea ice space is the entire area coated by ice, whereas “extent” refers back to the complete area with no less than 15 % sea ice cowl.

Global marine warmth waves and the El Niño climate sample contributed to all of maximum temperature data in 2023, Sarah Kapnick, the chief scientist on the NOAA, mentioned in a press release launched Thursday.

“But as long as emissions continue driving a steady march of background warming, we expect further records to be broken in the years to come,” Kapnick mentioned.

The file temperatures for air and water contributed to excessive climate across the globe in August, together with monsoon rains in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. The NOAA summarized these occasions within the graphic embedded under.