The main purpose of this ongoing blog is 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 and are archived on each prior post. I’ll refer to extreme or temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic: Countries Likely to Have Their Warmest December and Year on Record
Dear Diary. The year 2023 will be in the history books in just a couple of days, so both this year’s and that of December’s climatology is becoming clear enough for some declarations. Climate change combined with added warming umph from a strong El Niño has produced some record warm temperature averages for many countries and territories across the planet. For today’s main topic let’s take a look at what’s being declared via weather historian Maximiliano Herrera and other sources.
I may add to this list through the first couple of days of January 2024:
#Japan's🇯🇵 annual mean temperature anomaly for 2023 (compared to 1991-2020) is expected to be 🌡️+1.28°C, based on provisional calculations using data up to 27 December, significantly higher than the previous all-time high of +0.65°C in 2020 !!
— Tomoki Suzuki (@StabilizClimate) December 29, 2023
Source : Weathernews Inc. pic.twitter.com/dx6iPGSAku
2023 is also being the warmest year on record in #Germany with an average temperature of 10.6C, beating by 0.1C 2018 and 2022. https://t.co/MSTLdI65Il
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 29, 2023
2023 in the #Netherlands was also a double record year:
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 30, 2023
It was the warmest and at the same time, the wettest year on record.
Average temperature was 11.8C while average precipitation was 1060mm (normal is 795mm). https://t.co/gxPozLL37y
2023 is the warmest year in Austria since 1768.
— Zdenek Nejedly (@ZdenekNejedly) December 29, 2023
The average temperature is 1.3 °C above the 1991-2020 normal and equal to 2018.
The paradox is that such a high temperature was reached in the rainiest year since 1966 (+16%) and with less sunshine (-3%)https://t.co/pKJOltHyjl pic.twitter.com/bricrYz49a
Here is a close second:
Instead in #France 2023 is ending with an anomaly of +1.3C vs 1991-2020,the second warmest year just behind 2022.
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 29, 2023
Every month after January 2022 (23 in a row) has been warmer than average. https://t.co/TqbnyFDGQG
I’m keeping a close eye on the United States, which won’t have a record warm year but is likely to have a record warm December. Many are whining about the lack of snow, especially along the I-95 corridor, which encompasses megalopolis cities from Washington D.C. northward to Boston:
The entire Lower 48 has been warmer than average this December…tough to do
— Eric Fisher (@ericfisher) December 29, 2023
Will finish either 1st or 2nd warmest on record…photo finish with 2021 pic.twitter.com/4WwONqtwsU
No surpirse, but a quick glance at the seasonal #snowfall to date comparison 2022-23 to 2023-24 tells me there was a lot more #snow, everywhere that typically gets snow, last year. #whereiswinter @spann @foxweather pic.twitter.com/Qm0SECRJMP
— Tom Niziol (@TomNiziol) December 30, 2023
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:
Another heat wave in SOUTH AMERICA
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 29, 2023
in #Brazil monthly records destroyed of highest Tmin and highest Tmax at Porto Murtinho with +29.4/+41.6
Record also at Aquidauana with 40.4C
In Bolivia records again at Puerto Suarez and San Jose
In January a even worse heat wave is brewing. https://t.co/ABB4Mpk92o
This December 2023 in #Canada is rewriting history:
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 30, 2023
Record warmth almost the whole month in almost the whole country.
On 29 December another extremely mild day in British Columbia up to 16.5C at Sheringham Point and a new December record at Tofino with 16.0C. https://t.co/sAfL7YKtuP
🔥 49.3°C Marble Bar, Western #Australia 🇦🇺! 🥵
— Thierry Goose (@ThierryGooseBC) December 30, 2023
➡️ All-time record tied (= 27 Dec. 2018)
➡️ Only 0.6°C from the Dec. national record
➡️ Only 0.5°C from the Dec. record for Western Australia
➡️ Ties the highest temperature of 2023 in the Southern Hemisphere (= Onslow, WA, Jan. 14) pic.twitter.com/QQtIC0oPxA
❗️49 DEGREES /121F ❗️
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 30, 2023
Exceptional heat wave in AUSTRALIA from West to East
All time RECORD HEAT tied:49.3C Marble Bar in Western Australia
Records also in Queensland
47.2 Winton all time high
DEC HIGHEST TMINS
26.2 Gympie
26.0 Brisbane AP
26.3 Maryborough
25.3 Archefield https://t.co/AmNnHGi6mO
Endless record heat in the SE Asia
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 30, 2023
36.4C at Zamboanga,PHILIPPINES ties its December record set earlier this month
This month has been crazy for the hot nights:
Roxas had 16 MIN TEMP. >27C and none below 25C!
December hottest night on record also at Satun, THAILAND: TMIN 27.3C. https://t.co/s2cjxh1ODj
Records are a daily routine allover Asia
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 30, 2023
In INDIA it was a double record:
36.2 Thiruvananthapuram City
35.2 Trivandrum Airport
THAILAND
35.5 Samut Prakaan also December record
Very hot also in Cambodia (>36C) and Vietnam (tmins up to 28.4c).
No cooling/relief in sight at all. https://t.co/SId63FQFoi
2024 will start with a harsh cold spell in Scandinavia where temperatures can plunge to the lowest levels in many years.
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 30, 2023
For example Helsinki, Finland can drop below -25C in the city center and possibly -30C in its outskirts. https://t.co/OeA222IwU7
Among China's more than 2,700+ national weather stations, the station with the highest annual precipitation is 3233.1mm in Beihai, Guangxi, and the the lowest annual precipitation is 1.7mm in Tuokexun, Xinjiang (only rains three times). @extremetemps @ThierryGooseBC https://t.co/qT2Auh7Ce5
— Jim yang (@yangyubin1998) December 30, 2023
If you live in the UK, you must have noticed the increase in rainfall levels this year. Many regions have experienced an excess of precipitation (200% of the norm), resulting in unprecedented rainfall levels and subsequent flooding. pic.twitter.com/ormGdblnGo
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) December 30, 2023
The annual average of the South Pole Station was -48.8C,+0.3C above the 1991-2020 baseline.
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 30, 2023
In Vostok instead, the annual average was -55.6C, -0.5C below the 1958-2022 reference and the coldest year since 2016 (-55.7C). https://t.co/M9q0TzMPkZ
Here is More Climate and News from Saturday:
(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.)
"2024: The year it got (really) hot" by @GwynneDyer for @NZStuff: https://t.co/FwMhSYJmrI
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) December 30, 2023
Climate scientists warn of extreme temps to continue in 2024, which many researchers expect to be another record hot year. We ignore them at our own peril. pic.twitter.com/x7OP1sXx0w
— Rocky Kistner (@therockyfiles) December 30, 2023
Breaking news!
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) December 30, 2023
Code Yikes!
The latest Copernicus data showed Dec. 24th was the 3rd hottest day in the last 174 years for global surface temperatures, at 1.99°C over the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline. Maybe even the 3rd hottest in the last 125,000 years. pic.twitter.com/9UXJqhsbED
Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’https://t.co/cbuf3O6fdl
— Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️🌈 (@BrianMcHugh2011) December 30, 2023
Scientists in a warming Antarctic summer: “There’s no sea ice at all…To think about what we’re doing to it and the changes that are happening here, it’s a punch in the guts.” https://t.co/6RamT0AtE6 @readfearn @adamlmorton @guardian
— Rocky Kistner (@therockyfiles) December 30, 2023
Variability and long-term decline of November #Arctic sea-ice thickness and sea-ice volume…
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) December 30, 2023
+ Data information: https://t.co/UDsruDWjtZ pic.twitter.com/Tz0gB7TPVN
Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 30, 2023 ~ Paradise lost.
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) December 30, 2023
"2023 is nothing but shocking, in terms of the strength of climate occurrences, from heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires, to rate of ice melt and temperature anomalies particularly in the ocean"https://t.co/nxtTcHFt1c
Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of #ClimateChange
— Prof. Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) December 30, 2023
1. Stop methane emissions
2. Stop deforestation
3. Restore degraded land
4. Change what we eat
5. Go #RenewableEnergy
6. Use energy more efficiently
7. Stop burning #FossilFuels
8. #ActNow https://t.co/8wNURqsLfL
Today’s News on Sustainable Energy, Traditional Polluting Energy from Fossil Fuel, and the Green Revolution:
Some of the worst aspects of electric battery mining are lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and graphite
— GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) December 30, 2023
All soon gone – not needed
This is a gamer changer https://t.co/M6d8iyymGy pic.twitter.com/sNEb9RIHHE
ICYMI: important figures from a recent report that should be widely shared. Global CO₂ emissions & the challenges ahead…
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) December 30, 2023
+ @gcarbonproject: https://t.co/KY6poFJHr0
+ Summary https://t.co/VgoUToaYK5
+ Published Report https://t.co/X12Puvscbw
+ Graphics https://t.co/27wDrnfXpe pic.twitter.com/FoNi6Jvkct
The sights and sounds of birds drowned out by yet more human junk
— GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) December 30, 2023
Flying Taxis Are Coming in 2024.
Flying cars, air taxis, skyways: The future of local travel is taking flight. But are we ready to leave the land and take to the sky?https://t.co/sa40iz6tt1
In Manhattan, a new waterside park will function as a berm, keeping floodwaters from city streets.
— Yale Environment 360 (@YaleE360) December 30, 2023
The park is part of a massive, Dutch-inspired flood control project aimed at protecting the city against rising seas.https://t.co/xtmHyGf23b
Los Angeles voted 12-0 to ban new drilling and to close all 5,000 existing oil and gas wells in the city. This is a historic victory by @STAND_LA and all citizens over the oil industry and environmental racism.
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) December 30, 2023
IT CAN BE DONE! Who's next?#ActOnClimate #climate pic.twitter.com/sCjsERxyhE
More from the Weather Department:
What's going on? Well, here's a short story in two images. Sierra precip has been modestly below avg this month, but temperatures have been *dramatically* warmer than avg (record warm locally). Hence: what precip has fallen has mainly done so as rain (vs snow). #CAwx #CAwater https://t.co/mdBNSuWQsv pic.twitter.com/en3aN6CHWP
— Dr. Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) December 30, 2023
Along w/most of rest of U.S. following an extremely warm December, California's Sierra Nevada is experiencing a severe early season "snow drought." However, majority of snow accumulation season" is yet to come & some colder storms are likely in first 10 days of Jan.#CAwx #CAwater pic.twitter.com/WGcEHcI6C3
— Dr. Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) December 30, 2023
If you are a #winter #Weather fan in the East, it's been a tough couple years, I had to go back to 2017-18 to find a "good" winter for the East overall based on AWSSI, and this year is plain pathetic. @foxweather pic.twitter.com/FnwhO8y37S
— Tom Niziol (@TomNiziol) December 30, 2023
I can finally say it feels like #winter here in Roan Mountain TN. @wjhl @WCYB_DavidBoyd @spann @foxweather pic.twitter.com/2Dlyu8VaIk
— Tom Niziol (@TomNiziol) December 30, 2023
More on the Environment and Nature:
It is nearly impossible for us to fathom how quickly species are disappearing, @carlsafina said. “And so the endeavour of stopping this crisis becomes more of a religious kind of experience than a scientific one, in a sense, more moral than practical.” https://t.co/ZqhiBMcl0Y
— Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell) December 30, 2023
The Biden administration has announced a proposed nationwide forest plan amendment to advance protections for the last remaining old-growth trees in U.S. national forests. This is a win for all of us as we try to tackle to climate and biodiversity crises. https://t.co/JLkIELr0FW
— Earthjustice (@Earthjustice) December 30, 2023
Human carnivory is one of the biggest factors for biodiversity loss. https://t.co/pErHRnGohH pic.twitter.com/BZwY8q7ib6
— Dr. William J. Ripple (@WilliamJRipple) December 30, 2023
WOW! Look at all the manatees on this cold morning huddled together to stay warm in Crystal River, #Florida! Credit: Three Sisters Springs @WINKNews pic.twitter.com/9ymEjBbYjh
— Matt Devitt (@MattDevittWX) December 30, 2023
More on Other Science and the Beauty of Earth and this Universe:
After a long and eventful day, I take my leave like the sun and wish my beloved and much appreciated fellow inhabitants of planet Earth a wonderful relaxing good evening and a blessed night. Stay healthy and kind. May God bless you.❤️💙💚🌿🌱☘️🌲🌳🍀💚 pic.twitter.com/Dl2kjbnORa
— Green is a mission (@Greenisamissio1) December 30, 2023