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THE U. S. GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO SEE MORE EXTREME WEATHER YEAR AFTER YEAR
More Heat, Drought and Floods in 2013
The U.S. government continues to see more extreme weather year after year
By Christa Marshall and ClimateWire
Climatewire
farmer stands before flooded field
While farmers in the Southeast are seeing some of their crops drown, farmers in the West are seeing them bake as a record-setting drought enlarges. Image: NOAA
Global average temperatures in June were the fifth highest on record, as above-average heat conditions continued a multidecade streak, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported yesterday.
June marked the 340th consecutive month -- a span of time more than 28 years -- that global temperatures surged above the 20th century average, according to the agency.
"The last below-average June temperature was June 1976 and the last below-average temperature for any month was February 1985," NOAA said in a release.
At the same time, it is too early to determine whether the stifling heat wave bringing misery to much of the eastern United States for the past week is unusual.
"This heat wave is still unfolding, so it's kind of hard for us to put it into a perspective of past heat waves," said Jake Crouch, a climatologist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
A study authored by NOAA scientist Thomas Peterson last month reported that heat waves became more frequent in the United States in recent decades, but there are decadal variations. When the entire temperature record is considered, the 1930s had the largest number of heat waves, Peterson said yesterday.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in one assessment that global climate change "is likely to be accompanied by an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves, as well as warmer summers."
'Warmer and wetter' in June
There was some weather relief in June. For example, the region east of the Mississippi River became drought free for the first time since 2005, according to the Drought Monitor. Spain also experienced its coolest June since 1997.
Neither El Niño nor La Niña conditions were present during June and are unlikely to appear through the fall, the agency said. El Niño and La Niña -- which occur when the equatorial Pacific Ocean reaches above- or below-average temperatures -- are linked to many extreme weather events.
But a lot of the weather tale involved a string of stifling heat conditions, drought and flooding.
The first half of the year, from January to June, tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest on record globally, NOAA said. In June, Japan was as much as 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 period, while north-central Canada, northern Siberia, north-central Australia and much of Eastern Europe also witnessed higher-than-average temperatures.
The United States was "warmer and wetter" than normal in June with monthly temperatures sitting 2 degrees Farenheit above average, NOAA said. Scorching heat appeared across the West, including via near-records in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah.
"Alaska had its third warmest June on record with a temperature 4 degrees above average," Crouch said.
No heat relief for the West through October
Additionally, NOAA said there is a likelihood that a huge swath of the United States stretching from Louisiana to the western Canadian border could experience above-average temperatures through October.
That is also true in northern Alaska via a dynamic partially attributable to diminishing Arctic ice in recent years, said Dan Collins, seasonal forecaster at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. The average Arctic sea ice extent in June was about 2.6 percent below the 1981-2010 average, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Meanwhile, precipitation patterns varied widely around the globe last month.
In the United States, the general trend in both June and the first half of the year was a wetter-than-average eastern United States and Midwest, and an unusually dry West.
The U.S. government continues to see more extreme weather year after year
By Christa Marshall and ClimateWire
Climatewire
farmer stands before flooded field
While farmers in the Southeast are seeing some of their crops drown, farmers in the West are seeing them bake as a record-setting drought enlarges. Image: NOAA
Global average temperatures in June were the fifth highest on record, as above-average heat conditions continued a multidecade streak, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported yesterday.
June marked the 340th consecutive month -- a span of time more than 28 years -- that global temperatures surged above the 20th century average, according to the agency.
"The last below-average June temperature was June 1976 and the last below-average temperature for any month was February 1985," NOAA said in a release.
At the same time, it is too early to determine whether the stifling heat wave bringing misery to much of the eastern United States for the past week is unusual.
"This heat wave is still unfolding, so it's kind of hard for us to put it into a perspective of past heat waves," said Jake Crouch, a climatologist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
A study authored by NOAA scientist Thomas Peterson last month reported that heat waves became more frequent in the United States in recent decades, but there are decadal variations. When the entire temperature record is considered, the 1930s had the largest number of heat waves, Peterson said yesterday.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in one assessment that global climate change "is likely to be accompanied by an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves, as well as warmer summers."
'Warmer and wetter' in June
There was some weather relief in June. For example, the region east of the Mississippi River became drought free for the first time since 2005, according to the Drought Monitor. Spain also experienced its coolest June since 1997.
Neither El Niño nor La Niña conditions were present during June and are unlikely to appear through the fall, the agency said. El Niño and La Niña -- which occur when the equatorial Pacific Ocean reaches above- or below-average temperatures -- are linked to many extreme weather events.
But a lot of the weather tale involved a string of stifling heat conditions, drought and flooding.
The first half of the year, from January to June, tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest on record globally, NOAA said. In June, Japan was as much as 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 period, while north-central Canada, northern Siberia, north-central Australia and much of Eastern Europe also witnessed higher-than-average temperatures.
The United States was "warmer and wetter" than normal in June with monthly temperatures sitting 2 degrees Farenheit above average, NOAA said. Scorching heat appeared across the West, including via near-records in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah.
"Alaska had its third warmest June on record with a temperature 4 degrees above average," Crouch said.
No heat relief for the West through October
Additionally, NOAA said there is a likelihood that a huge swath of the United States stretching from Louisiana to the western Canadian border could experience above-average temperatures through October.
That is also true in northern Alaska via a dynamic partially attributable to diminishing Arctic ice in recent years, said Dan Collins, seasonal forecaster at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. The average Arctic sea ice extent in June was about 2.6 percent below the 1981-2010 average, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Meanwhile, precipitation patterns varied widely around the globe last month.
In the United States, the general trend in both June and the first half of the year was a wetter-than-average eastern United States and Midwest, and an unusually dry West.
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