The Earth’s average temperature reached an all-time high on back-to-back days, in what is shaping up to be a year of record-breaking heat. Bill McGuire, A professor of geophysical climate hazards, called the records “totally unprecedented and terrifying.”
Nonetheless, the weather will always vary. In coastal California, recent weather has been “unusually cool and cloudy,” due to a series of low-pressure systems that have been stalling over California, Miguel Miller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego,
. The temperature records set Monday and Tuesday represent an average of all temperatures measured globally.Though it is winter in the southern hemisphere, that portion of the globe has been experiencing higher temperatures than normal for this time of year. Antarctica’s Argentine islands with a high of 47.6° F and Antarctica's average forecast for Wednesday is 8.1° F warmer than the 1979-2000 average.Oceans are heating up
Approximately 40% of the world’s oceans are currently experiencing heat waves, the most since satellite tracking started in 1991, according to NOAA. The agency projects that proportion to rise to 50% by September, which is "kind of scary," Dillon Amaya, a research scientist with NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory,
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