What Was The Hottest Year On Record Worldwide
The Caribbean region also had its eighth warmest year-to-date on record.
What was the hottest year on record worldwide. Nine of the 10 warmest JanuaryMays on record for Africa have occurred since 2005 with 1998 among the 10 warmest. The year 2016 with a temperature deviation of 094C is considered to be the hottest year on record. Burt a weather historian writing for Weather Underground believes.
2020 was hottest year on record by narrow margin Nasa says Due to different methods US Noaa judged year as fractionally cooler than 2016 while UK. Only 1 of the top 20 warmest years on record since instrument data began in 1880 took place before the year 2000. Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 178 degrees Fahrenheit 099 degrees Celsius warmer than the mid-20th century mean.
In terms of climate change the year was also one of the three warmest on record. With greenhouse gas concentrations in the air at their highest level in 3 million years the odds favor more record-shattering years in the future. The warmest years globally have all occurred since 2005 with the top ten being 2016 2020 2019 2015 2017 2018 2014 2010 2013 and 2005 tied respectively.
2015 and 2017 came close in second and third respectively with temperature deviations of 09C and 084C respectively. Earths warming trend continued in 2019 making it the second-hottest year in NOAAs 140-year climate record just behind 2016. Globally the years 2014 2015 and 2016 are the hottest on record so far.
Year-to-date global temperature comparison from the 2020 Annual Global Climate Report. Courtesy of NOAA NCEI. Notable regional warmth was observed in.
Heatwaves drought hurricanes wildfires and changes in sea ice coverage. Global land and ocean temperatures from 1880 to 2015. A collage of typical climate and weather-related events.