Apparently everybody didn't have the same experience. I guess that happens on a planet the size of ours.
Hottest Year Ever: 5 Places Where 2014 Temps Really Cooked
Though the official numbers aren't in for December, it's likely that 2014 will go down as the planet's hottest year on record, at least because scientists began maintaining tabs on global temperature.
Information from three important climate-tracking groups agree: The combined land and ocean surface temperatures hit new highs this year, according to the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United Kingdom's Met Office and the World Meteorological Association.
If December's figures are at least .76 degrees Fahrenheit (.42 degrees Celsius) higher than the 20th century average, 2014 will beat the warmest years on record, NOAA said this month. The January-through-November period has currently been noted as the warmest 11-month period in the previous 135 years, according to NOAA's November Worldwide Climate Report. [8 Ways International Warming Is Already Altering the World]
Even with the planet gunning for new international heat records, not all regions sweltered year-round in 2014. For instance, components of North America suffered from intense cold in January and February. That stated, there have been plenty of locations exactly where heat records fell this year. Right here is a look at 5 locations that will assistance push 2014 into the global warming record books.
Australia: For the second year in a row, Australians saw heat records topple from the Gold Coast to the Coral Coast. The nation kicked off January with an extreme heat wave temperatures soared greater than 120 F (49 C). Heat waves in the autumn (March to May possibly) and spring (September to November) also drove temperatures into the record books.
Eastern Pacific Ocean: Toasty temperatures created in the eastern Pacific Ocean, in spite of an El Niño that in no way appeared. The heat was specially notable off the western coast of the United States. Fishing boats spotted species effectively north of their range, such as a giant ocean sunfish offshore of Alaska. For the worldwide ocean, the September to November sea surface temperature was 1.13 F (.63 C) above the 20th century average of 60.7 F (16. C), surpassing the preceding record by .11 F (.06 C), according to NOAA.
Siberia: Central Siberia defrosted in spring and early summer time under temperatures more than 9 F (5 C) above its 1981 to 2010 typical. Ice on the Ob River started to break up two weeks earlier than regular. The heat may have unleashed methane gas trapped in previously frozen permafrost, triggering underground explosions that formed spectacularly deep holes.
California: The extended-operating drought in California was produced worse in 2014 by record heat. The initially 10 months of 2014 were the warmest in California's history, additionally burdening the state's water demands.
Northern Europe: The similar weather pattern that froze North America in early 2014 brought an unusually warm spring to countries like Denmark, Norway and Turkey. The sultry spring was the warmest in a century or a lot more in these countries. In addition, January to October was the warmest ten-month period on record for Central England given that 1659, and the warmest such period for the Netherlands considering that 1706.
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Global Extreme Temperatures in 2014: 3 All-Time National Heat Records, 2 Cold Records
By: Jeff Masters , 2:26 PM GMT on January 07, 2015
Despite the fact that 2014 will likely be classified as Earth's warmest year in history in an announcement due from NOAA on January 16, the year was not a notable one for all-time national heat records. Two nations and one territory tied or set all-time records for their hottest temperature in recorded history in 2014, and two territories set all-time cold records. For comparison, five countries and three territories set all-time hottest temperature records in 2013; the most all-time national heat records in a year was twenty nations and one territory in 2010. Since 2010, 46 nations or territories (out of a total of 235) have set or tied all-time heat records, and three have set all-time cold temperature records. Since each of those years ranked as one of the top twelve warmest years in Earth's recorded history (with 2010 being the warmest year on record), this sort of disparity in national heat and cold records is to be expected. Most nations do not maintain official databases of extreme temperature records, so the national temperature records reported here are in many cases not official. I use as my source for international weather records Maximiliano Herrera, one of the world's top climatologists, who maintains a comprehensive list of extreme temperature records for every nation in the world on his website. If you reproduce this list of extremes, please cite Maximiliano Herrera as the primary source of the weather records. Wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt maintains a database of these national heat and cold records for 235 nations and territories on wunderground.com's extremes page.
New all-time national and territorial heat records set in 2014
Iran set a new all-time heat record of 53.0°C (127.4°F) at Gotvand on 17 July, which tied the record set at Dehloran on 28 July 2011.
Latvia set a new all-time heat record of 37.8°C (100°F) at Ventspils on 4 August. Previous record: 36.4°C at Daugavpils on 4 August 1943.
Wallis and Futuna (French territory) set an all-time heat record of 18.0°C (64.4°F) at Hihifo on 13 July. Previous record: 18.4°C at the same location on 9 July 1978 and 26 August 2003.
New all-time territorial cold records set in 2014
Heard and McDonald Islands (uninhabited territory of Australia) set a new all-time cold record of -11.5°C (11.3°F) at The Split. Previous record: -10.6°C at Atlas Cove on 2 August 1949.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French territory) set a new all-time cold record of -9.5°C (14.9°F) at Port Aux Francais on 11 August. Previous record: -9.4°C at the same location on 27 June 1953.
Notable global heat and cold records set in 2014
Hottest temperature in the world in 2014: 53.0°C (127.4°F) at Gotvand, Iran on 17 July
Coldest temperature in the world in 2014: -80.8°C (-113.4°F) at Vostok, Antarctica, 20 August
Hottest temperature in the Southern Hemisphere: 49.3°C (120.7°F) at Moomba Aero, Australia, 2 January
Coldest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere: -63.3°C (-81.9°F) at Summit GEO, Greenland, 23 March
Number of major world stations which set their all time highest temperature in 2013: 198 (for comparison, this was 389 in 2012.)
?Number of major world stations which set their all time lowest temperature in 2013: 15 (for comparison, this was 12 in 2012.)
New high temperature records in world capitals in 2014
Minsk, Belarus reached 35.6°C (96.1°F) on 3 August, beating the old record of 35.0°C set on 29 July 1936.
Jakarta, Indonesia reached 37.0°C (98.6°F) on 24 September, beating the old record of 36.8°C set on 2 October 2006.
A big thanks goes to Maximiliano Herrera for providing the information in this post.
Jeff Masters
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