2021 IS EXPECTED TO BE ONE OF THE WARMEST TEN YEARS EVER RECORDED
November 17, 2021
This year will most likely be one of the ten warmest ever recorded according to the monthly climate report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The records date back to 1880 and the January to October 2021 temperature average ranked as the sixth hottest among the recorded data.
NOAA says that there is a 99% chance that 2021 will be among the top ten warmest ten years ever recorded. All the top ten warmest years recorded took place this century. The top five years happened after 2015 and the warmest year till date was 2016 albeit the temperature difference is minute among these years.
October 2021 was about 0.89 degrees celsius (1.60 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 20th-century average and it was the fourth warmest month in the 140-year average.
The report states, "Record-warm October temperatures were present across parts of North America, South America, northern Africa, southern Asia, as well as across parts of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.”