People get ready to practice on a ski slope operating with a small amount of snow during an unusually high-temperature day in Zakopane, Poland on Feb. 16, 2024.
WASHINGTON — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.-fueled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren't just the hottest for February, but eclipsed any month on record, soaring past August 2023's mark and still rising at the end of the month.
February 2024 averaged 13.54 degrees Celsius , breaking the old record from 2016 by about an eighth of a degree. February was 1.77 degrees Celsius warmer than the late 19th century, Copernicus calculated. Only last December was more above pre-industrial levels for the month than February was. “And we also see the ongoing ‘hot spot’ over the Arctic, where rates of warming are much faster than the globe as a whole, triggering a cascade of impacts on fisheries, ecosystems, ice melt, and altered ocean current pattern s that have long-lasting and far-reaching effects,” Francis added.
The North Atlantic sea surface temperature has been at record level — compared to the specific date — every day for a solid year since March 5, 2023, “often by seemingly-impossible margins,” according to University of Miami tropical scientistThose other ocean areas “are a symptom of greenhouse-gas trapped heat accumulating over decades,” Francis said in an email. “That heat is now emerging and pushing air temperatures into uncharted territory.
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