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| Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service offered a grim sneak peak at Earth's October climate data. |
September was the world's hottest on record, but what really had climatologists hitting the panic button was the huge margin by which September's global temperature exceeded the previous record.
The first major data to come out on a previous month's global climate is from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. It shows that the world just exceeded its previous record for the hottest October by 0.4 degrees Celsius.
That 0.4 Celsius is roughly a degree Fahrenheit, which doesn't sound like much, but it is a whoppingly large margin when measuring the world as a whole.
Preliminary data suggests that 19 percent of the Earth's surface had its hottest October on record. That's an extraordinarily large area for an all time record. The only month experts say is comparable is September. As was the margin by which October broke the previous record for hottest.
The preliminary October data makes it virtually assured that 2023 will be Earth's hottest year in 125,000 years, according to a team of EU scientists.
Such hot global air really does a number on storms, making them stronger, more dangerous and more unpredictable. The world seems to be in a sort of mini-lull in big storms over the past couple weeks, with the exception of Europe's Storm Ciaran in October.
But I expect with the combined heat of climate change and El Nino, this is going to be a really destructive winter from intense storms around the world.
We're still awaiting more data from NOAA, NASA and other agencies to assess this October's global temperature. But scientists say that data, due in a week or so, will be similar to the Copernicus findings.
I'll keep you posted when the new data comes out!
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