Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May reading

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BY SETH BORENSTEIN

Earth’s temperature spiked to tie a record high for May, U.S. meteorologists reported Friday.

Last month the global average temperature was 60.3 degrees (15.7 degrees Celsius), tying 2016 for the hottest May in 141 years of record keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

That’s 1.7 degrees (nearly 1 degree Celsius) higher than the 20th century average for Earth.

Temperature on land set a heat record, while ocean temperatures ranked second.



FILE - In this Wednesday, May 27, 2020 file photo, a boy stands on the shore of the Ganges River during a hot summer day in Prayagraj, India. Earth's temperature spiked to tie a record high for May, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Friday, June 12, 2020. The global land temperature was the hottest for May on record. The heat was especially extreme in Siberia, Alaska, Asia, along the equator, the Southern Hemisphere and parts of the Northern Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)


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[at140]

1. Siberians and Alaskans probably welcome the global warming

but we don't need any warming here in Florida. My A/C bill is too high already.

[marie999]

2. Not Siberia, not with the wildfires and melting permafrost.

Same in Alaska. There is a possibility of viruses frozen in the permafrost that could be deadly if they unfreeze.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Eroding coastlines and thawing permafrost are threatening many aboriginal villages in AK. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Only reason it's not higher?

Economic and travel implosion?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The EU program did think it was the hottest May on record

https://climate.copernicus.eu/may-2020-globally-warmest-record-europe-below-average-temperatures

[doc03]

5. It sure didn't set any records in Ohio. We have three

seasons now fall an almost endless spring then suddenly it is summer.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. And Here In NE Illinois, 3 Straight Mays...

...of record rainfall.
2018-2020 we had 9.21, 9.25, & 10.04 inches of rain in May.
Higher global average temperature? Check
Water content of air goes up with temperature? Check
Water condenses at higher altitudes? Check
More rain? Check
But, climate change is a hoax!
Except for those parts where the laws of thermodynamics says it HAS TO BE HAPPENING!