![]() ![]() That means some places - including both polar regions - will be extraordinarily warmer than normal and others will be cooler. While there are small spots of cooler-than-normal temperatures across the globe, the University of Maine measurement is an average. Germany’s weather agency, DWD, has predicted highs of 37 degrees C (99 degrees F) on Sunday and the Health Ministry has issued a warning to vulnerable people. The temperature is ramping up across Europe this week, too. That was the hottest ever nighttime low for Africa, according to weather historian and climatologist Maximiliano Herrera. ![]() Temperatures were so brutally hot Thursday in Adrar, Algeria, that the temperature never got below 103.3 degrees (39.6 degrees Celsius ) even at night when it is supposed to cool. This week’s average includes places that are sweltering under dangerous heat - like Jingxing, China, which checked in almost 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) - and the merely unusually warm, like Antarctica, where temperatures across much of the continent were as much as 8 degrees Fahrenheit (4.5 degrees Celsius) above normal this week. ![]() But he said long-term proxy measurements like tree rings aren’t precise. He cited a 2021 study that says Earth is the warmest since the last age ended, and said Earth likely hasn’t been as warm dating all the way to the ice age before that some 120,000 years ago.Ĭlimate scientist Zeke Hausfather of the tech company Stripe and Berkeley Earth temperature monitoring group said he wouldn’t be surprised if it is the warmest in 120,000 years. “It is certainly plausible that the past couple days and past week were the warmest days globally in 120,000 years,” University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann said. ![]()
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