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Earth’s hottest August in 175 years
September 21 , 2024
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- August 2024 was the hottest August in 175 years.
- The average global land and ocean surface temperature in August was 2.29 degrees F (1.27 degrees C) above the 20th-century average of 60.1 degrees F (15.6 degrees C).
- The southern hemisphere was its warmest winter on the record at 0.96-degree centigrade above average.
- The summer season in 2024 was the northern hemisphere’s warmest on record.
- At present, global sea ice extent is the second-smallest in the 46-year record, at 8.32 million square miles.
- It was 1.05 million square miles below the 1991-2020 average.
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