Climate change: World now sees twice as many days over 50C

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Temperatures of 50 degrees C happen predominantly in the Middle East and Gulf regions.

It went over 50C in my area, why is it not featured?

For example, Death Valley National Park in southern California is one of the hottest places on Earth. Temperatures in certain parts of the park regularly pass 50C in summer. But when creating an average for maximum temperatures for the wider area, using several different sources, a figure below 50C is reached.The BBC has used the maximum daily temperatures from the high resolution global ERA5 dataset, produced by the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

The process fills in gaps created by poor station coverage in many parts of the world and helps us to understand climate change.Using the maximum temperature for every day from 1980 to 2020, we identified how often temperatures exceeded 50C. We also looked at the change in maximum temperatures. We did this by working out the difference between the average maximum temperature over land and sea for the most recent decade compared with the 30 years before .

 

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