New data has revealed that last month was not only the hottest September on record, but it was hotter by a margin that astounded scientists have dubbed "extraordinary," "huge," and "whopping."
It maintains the trajectory for the hottest year on record, which is predicted to be 1.4C higher than pre-industrial times.
The new record is only the most recent to be broken this year; new highs were also achieved in June, July, and August.
Scientists have warned of impending worsening and are blaming it mostly on climate change. However, they also attributed it to natural weather variations and a warm weather cycle known as El Nino.
The average surface air temperature worldwide was 16.38C (61.484F) in September, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Professor Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at Reading University, stated, "It's huge." By this margin, we shouldn't be setting records.
The differences between each month of the year are typically fairly tiny, according to Piers Forster, a professor of climate change at Leeds University and the interim chair of the government's Climate Change Committee.
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Breaking the previous September record by a staggering 0.5C, he said, "is crazy and shows something really bizarre is going on in the oceans."
According to Prof. Forster, greenhouse gases have been warming not only the atmosphere but also the deep ocean, particularly in the Atlantic, and now a change in ocean circulation is "causing some of that heat from the deeper ocean to resurface and bite us"
Samantha Burgess, D.O., assistant
The statistic represents the largest temperature increase since at least 1940 and is significantly (by 0.5C) higher than the previous warmest September of all time in 2020.
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