The average temperature reached 17.01 °C, beating the record set in 2016; The phenomenon “El Niño” is cited as one of the factors responsible for global warming
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According to the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction, July 3 was the world’s hottest on record. US, which is affiliated with the country’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The average temperature reached 17.01°C, beating the record 16.92°C set in 2016. The southern US has been suffering from the heat in recent days. At least 13 people died from the high temperatures. In the Mexicothe number of victims exceeds 100 between June 12 and 25. At Spain, the waves made the thermometers exceed 44 °C. O United Kingdom The British Weather Service reported that June saw the hottest June in terms of average temperature between maximum and minimum on record and warned that these records are likely to increase with climate change. The average temperature reached 15.8°C, 0.9°C higher than the previous record of 14.9°C in June in 1940 and 1976, according to the Met Office. The country suffered severe heat for several days in midJune, leading to water rationing by authorities in southeast England.
Due to the recorded climate changes and temperature rise, the U.N. urged governments to anticipate the consequences of the El Niño meteorological phenomenon “to save lives and livelihoods.” El Niño has just begun and is usually associated with rising global temperatures. This phenomenon will continue throughout the year with an intensity that is likely to be “at least moderate,” the United Nations said when announcing the start of the episode. In view of this phenomenon, the organization forecast in May that at least one of the next five years and the five years between 2023 and 2027 overall would be the warmest on record. In parts of southern Latin America, the southern United States, the Horn of Africa and Central Asia, El Niño is associated with increased precipitation. And it can cause droughts in Australia, Indonesia and parts of Southeast Asia and Central America. On the other hand, its warm waters can fuel hurricanes in the central and eastern Pacific and delay the formation of these Atlantic cyclones. The impact on world temperatures is usually noticed in the year after the phenomenon develops.
El Niño occurs on average every two to seven years and typically lasts between nine and 12 months. It is a natural climate phenomenon associated with warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. However, the current episode “takes place in the context of a climate altered by human activities,” the WMO emphasized. The 20182019 El Niño resulted in a particularly long La Niña episode of nearly three years that has the opposite effects, including a drop in temperature. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to exceed the 1.5°C figure set out in the Paris Agreement in the next five years, as that agreement refers to longterm warming over many years.” But it’s a new alarm bell,” he said Chris Hewitt, Head of Climate Services at the WMO.
*With information from AFP