Meteorologists predict that February is set to break a new heat record due to global warming and El Niño, which raises temperatures on land and in the oceans worldwide.
Heating Spike
The heating spike this month has become so pronounced that climate charts are breaking new ground, particularly for sea-surface temperatures, which have persisted and accelerated to the point where expert observers are struggling to explain how the change is occurring.
The surface air temperature on February 9, the most recent day for which data is available, was 13.7°C - a 1.3°C anomaly, making it the hottest February day in recorded history and narrowly missing the Paris Agreement threshold of 1.5°C.
The temperature on February 9 was nearly a degree higher than the 12.8°C recorded on the same date last year, according to data from the University of Maine's ClimateReanalyser.
According to Zeke Hausfather, a Berkeley Earth scientist, humanity is on track to have the hottest February in recorded history, following January, December, November, October, September, August, July, June, and May.
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Maximiliano Herrera, a blogger on Extreme Temperatures Around the World, called the spike in thousands of meteorological station heat records "insane," "total madness," and "climatic history rewritten." What astounded him was not just the number of records, but also how many of them outperformed previous ones.
He stated that 12 meteorological stations in Morocco recorded temperatures of 33.9°C or higher, which was not only a national record for the hottest winter day but also more than 5°C above average for July.Harbin, in northern China, had to halt its winter ice festival because temperatures rose above freezing on three days this month, an unprecedented occurrence.
In the last week, monitoring stations in South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Japan, North Korea, the Maldives, and Belize have set monthly heat records.
Herrera stated that 140 countries broke monthly heat records in the first half of this month, which is comparable to the final results of the last six record-breaking months of 2023 and more than three times any month prior to 2023.
According to Katharine Hayhoe, head scientist for The Nature Conservancy, the uncertainty regarding how the many elements interact serves as a warning that we do not completely understand how the complex Earth system is responding to unprecedented radiative forcing.
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/60694/20240219/scientists-expects-record-breaking-temperature-february-due-human-made-global.htm
