Drum roll , please … And we ’ve done it again ! May 2016 isthe hottest May on track record . Yep , we ’re not that surprised either , depressingly . Even with one of the unattackable El Niños ever recorded lastly on the downslope , the major planet has been go forward to warm up up , make it the 8th calendar month in a row to break the monthly temperature record , according to NASA .
Thelatest figure released by NASAnow make it even more certain that 2016 will also become the hot year on record , a record that was only arrange last yr . They found that May was 0.93 ° C ( 1.67 ° F ) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 norm , which is in reality the first month since October last class that the monthly average was not a full 1 ° C ( 1.6 ° F ) warmer than the service line . But do n’t permit that fool you into think that things are getting better .
The Arctic is really feeling the brunt of it all . The ocean chicken feed has fall to a record Sir David Alexander Cecil Low for May , stoke fears that this yr will separate the 2012 record of the worst ever summertime Methedrine melt . This has been mate with the glacier in Greenlandmelting at a record rate , with the ice sheets experiencing temperatures normally associated with summer as early as April this year . In fact , there have been so many anomalously warm day in the Arctic over the last twelvemonth that it isgenuinely off the chart .
While the fair global temperature is now sit down around 1 ° C ( 1.6 ° F ) hot , the far North is warming ata much faster rate . Finland , for representative , found that the median May temperature was between 3 and 4 ° C ( 5.4 and 7.2 ° atomic number 9 ) warmer , while in Alaska thing are even more extreme as , allot to the NOAA , this winter come in at an astonishing 10 ° hundred ( 16 ° F ) above average .
Exactly how these absurdly warm temperatures will manifest themselves apart from the melting of the ice is still unknown , but is it expected to have black effects on the wildlife in the region . Polar bears , for example , are already pass more and more time on land , andcoming into increased contactwith their brown bear cousins .
In a statement that really goes without saying , the Director of Geneva ’s World Climate Research Programmehas said : “ The state of the climate so far this year founder us much cause for alarm system . The super El Niño is only part to blame . Abnormal is the raw normal . ”
The NOAA are set to discharge their figures this Friday , and according to their data , this will be the 12th month in a run-in that the monthly temperature record have been smashed .
