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The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s and caused more than 5,000 deaths. Many state and city record high temperatures set during the 1936 heat wave stood until the 2012 North American heat wave.
NASA scientists estimated that in 2024, Earth was about 2.65 degrees Fahrenheit (1.47 degrees Celsius) hotter than the average from the mid-19th century — a period from 1850 to 1900.
September 2023 was the warmest September on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.5 °C above the temperature of the previous warmest September (2020). [140] During mid-April 2023, heat waves occurred in several countries in South Asia, Indochina, and parts of China. In what has been described as the "worst April heatwave ...
September 2023 was the most anomalously warm month, averaging 1.75 °C (3.15 °F) above the preindustrial average for September. [22] The Copernicus Programme (begun 1940) had recorded 13 August 2016, as the hottest global temperature, but by July 2024, that date had been downgraded to the fourth hottest.
A 2020 study found that a 1°F hotter school year is associated with a 1% reduction in learning that year, ... (IEA), the "world added 50% more renewable capacity in 2023 than in 2022." The IEA ...
How much hotter will your county get? A USA TODAY analysis of data from the Climate Impact Lab has an answer. ... More than 1,600 counties with an increase of 2.1 to 2.6 degrees may see ...
Each individual year from 2015 onwards has been warmer than any prior year going back to at least 1850. [51] In other words: each of the seven years in 2015-2021 was clearly warmer than any pre-2014 year. The year 2023 was 1.48 °C hotter than the average in the years 1850-1900 according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It was declared ...
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