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| A picture of a hot world: September, 2019 |
The latest word came out from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information this past week, and they said this September tied with 2015 as the hottest global September since good records got going somewhere in the late 1800s.
For those keeping score, all of the top 10 hottest Septembers have happened since 2005, and each of the last five Septembers were among the five hottest.
This, of course, is just another little addition to the mountain of evidence that overall, the world's climate is warming.
The year 2019 so far has been the second warmest on record. Only 2016 was toastier.
The warm trend has, of course been going on for decades now. If you're under the age of 34, you have never seen a global month that was cooler than average.
As always Arctic sea ice reached its minimum summer extent in September. It was tied with 2007 and 2016 as the second lowest season minimum on record. Of course these records only go back 41 years, but still.
You might recall that we here in Vermont didn't have a particularly warm September this year, but many places in the world obviously did.
The places that were warmest, relative to average, according to NOAA, were the northern and westernPacific Ocean, the south-central United States, northern Canada, much of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Middle East, northern China and a big chunk of Africa.
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