Scot’s addition to ‘Climate Change Porn’: Warming Earth heading for hottest year on record..
Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say.
That’s because global heat records have kept falling in 2014, with September the latest example.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month the globe averaged 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit (15.72 degrees Celsius). That was the hottest September in 135 years of record keeping. …
If Earth sets a record for heat in 2014 it probably won’t last, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for the private firm Weather Underground. If there is an El Nino, Masters said, “next year could well bring Earth’s hottest year on record, accompanied by unprecedented regional heat waves and droughts.”
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And locally, from Seattle’s komonews today:
A somewhat sunny and 72 degree day sounds fairly routine for Seattle… for early September, maybe even late August.
But October 19? Indeed, strange enough but then when you find out it’s only tied for the third-warmest day this month, it’s really something.
The 72 degree high for Seattle not only bested the record high for the day (70 set in 1995) but is now the sixth day this month at 70 or warmer — four of them coming in a row from the 3rd to the 6th topping out at 78 degrees on the sixth.
