Antarctica: Vast stretches of the southernmost continent were about 18 degrees Fahrenheit or more above average.Here's a few locations where high temperatures bumped up the global average, according to Thursday data, which uses temperatures from 1979-2000 as a baseline: Here's what to know: It was unusually hot in many places on Earth this weekĭata from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition, shows the United States was not driving this week's global heat records. About a dozen states had regions of below average temperatures.īut the global heat records are another reminder of how vast and interconnected the Earth is as climate change effects pile up. A few areas saw high heat, but much of the country was just a few degrees above average. National Weather Service Data shows the nation was warm, but not scalding, over the past few days. The natural El Niño climate pattern also plays a major role in the warmth.īut for many people in the USA, the global headlines likely felt disconnected from their experience this week. And there's some who believe this week's records would hold up if the data went back further - Possibly thousands of years into the past.Īlthough there's some legitimate scientific questions surrounding the unofficial records, scientists say climate change is dramatically reshaping the world we live in and expect records to keep falling.
Most days broke unofficial temperature records that experts have been tracking over decades. On a week where global temperatures broke record after record, much of United States wasn't all that hot. Watch Video: Diagnosing a heat-related illness
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