Greenland ocean sunset. Photo by William Bossen on Unsplash.
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily | JANUARY 8th 2022
According to a climatologist who’s been keeping climate and weather records, over 400 weather stations all around the world had beaten their previous all-time high temperature records throughout the year of 2021.
Climatologist Maximiliano Herrera has been compiling weather records for over 30 years, releasing annual reports on broken climate and temperature records in order to keep tabs on extreme weather and climate changes.
The past six years have been the six hottest on record, and 2021 is likely to find itself among them as one of the hottest, continuing the concerning trend of a warming globe. National high records were either beaten or tied in ten countries, the US, Canada, Turkey and Taiwan. 107 had beaten their monthly high temperature records, and 400 worldwide weather stations had set new highs for their records as well.
Though NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have yet to publish their reports on the weather situation of 2021, it’s already been confirmed that the last year isn’t likely to end up as the hottest year on record, despite a continuation of severe droughts, water shortages, forest fires, and the infamous heat dome in the Western US having been prevalent crises throughout.
Aside from these, there were several other crises that got the attention of experts around the world, spurring increasing concerns for the years to come. Food aid had to be organised in Kenya by the country’s government for the first time in years, due to a failed rain season, as was observed by meteorologist and co-founder of Climate Without Borders, Patricia Nying’uro.
