This scorching temperature came close to tying the current record for the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world: a searing 131 F (55 C), registered July 7, 1931, in Kebili, Tunisia. While the hottest day in Nevada was recorded in Laughlin in 1994, in late August 2019, an excessive heat warning was issued to the residents of Las Vegas as the temperature slid up to 110 degrees. Data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service found the mean temperature globally last year was 1.1 to 1.2. And this year, Syracuse, Italy, registered a temperature of 119.8 F (48.8 C) - the highest recorded temperature in European history, Live Science reported.Ĭalifornia's Death Valley also experienced near-record-breaking heat this summer, when the mercury hit 130 F (54.4 C), Live Science reported at the time. US researchers also found that ocean temperatures were the hottest recorded for. The last five years were the worlds five warmest on. In 2020, Antarctica also hit a new temperature record, taken at Argentina's Esperanza Base, of 64.94 F (18.3 C) last year. Only 2016 was hotter, but that year came at the end of an extreme El Niño, which typically has a warming influence on global temperatures. The Arctic isn't the only part of the world that has experienced record-breaking temperatures. It said 2019 was provisionally the 11th warmest year on record, with a mean temperature of 9.42C, putting it just outside the top 10 - all of which have all occurred since 2002. Increased temperatures are also seeing the growth in numbers of a grizzly-polar bear hybrid called a "pizzly" bear.Īccording to the WMO, ''It is possible, indeed likely, that greater extremes will occur in the Arctic region in the future.'' Because of these discrepancies, experts say the hottest temperature ever 'reliably' recorded on Earth is 129.2 degrees, from 2013 in Death Valley. Scientists have even warned that soaring Arctic temperatures could lead to the demise of the polar bear by the end of this century. These include record numbers of ''zombie fires'' caused by the burning of carbon-rich peat, the breaking up of some of the Arctic's thickest ice, and the thawing of permafrost, which could release radioactive waste and awaken dormant viruses, Live Science previously reported. (The global mean surface air temperature for that period was 14☌ (57☏), with an uncertainty of several tenths of a degree.) The image below shows global temperature anomalies in 2021, the sixth warmest year on record. The Arctic is heating at a rate more than twice the global average, causing some extreme shifts in its climates and biomes. The unprecedented record has forced the organisation to create a new category of extreme weather monitoring just for the Arctic Circle - the "highest recorded temperature at or north of 66.5⁰, the Arctic Circle." Verkhoyansk is situated roughly 71 miles (115 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle, and its meteorological station has been taking temperature readings since 1885. The smoke from the enormous infernos even travelled as far as the North Pole.
According to data taken from the Russian Forestry Agency (opens in new tab), Siberia's wildfires were the worst since records began this year, destroying an area of more than 46 million Acres (18.6 million hectares) of Russian forest in 2021 alone.
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