The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic: Updated Record Ratios Show a Rapidly Warming Europe
Dear Diary. I am a very bust beaver these days writing for these posts and continuing to write World of Thermo kids’ climate books. A third big task is to update various reported record temperature count data sets from the National Center for Environmental Information. Lately I have updated those for Spain, Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom. I am crossing my fingers that this science can continue if NCEI’s remaining climate reporting division is left alone by the Trump Administration…and that’s a big if.
What I’ve found is that these updates align well with how warm Europe has been getting the last few years. I can’t think of more than one month since the start of this decade that some portion of Europe has not been experiencing record warmth according to weather historian Maximiliano Herrera.
As a reminder, all of data compiled to make my charts comes from:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
Here are charts and number of reports for monthly records from the United Kingdom, Spain and Germany:
Since January 2020 there have only been 13 reports of monthly record chill, keeping in mind that a monthly record would be an all-tine record for one month for each month of the calendar year. The charts here are quite startling.
Here are my latest charts for Germany:
At least we have had a few dozen reports of monthly cold records coming from Germany the last five years, but once again, warmth is spiking on these charts.
And now we turn to Spain. Climate science indicates that the Mediterranean area is becoming more like the Sahara Desert and is one of the fastest warming areas of the planet thanks to climate change:
By contrast, monthly record report ratios for the United States are much lower:
Anyway, here is much more evidence of warming, not cooling much to the chagrin of all of us and particularly to all of those wrong climate naysayers out in the either of our world. We are now about at the mid point of the 2020s. I’ll revisit these datasets with time as we move towards the year 2030.
Here are more “ET’s” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
Here is More Climate News from Sunday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)