New report: Oceans have warmest June on record
NOAA reports warmest June ocean temperature since record keeping began in 1880 and warns of coming storms.
Mon, Jul 27 2009 at 9:03 PM EST
Photo: Red Nexala/Flickr The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just released a worrisome but expected report on rising sea temperatures. Here are some statistics from the report:
- The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for June 2009 was the second warmest on record, behind 2005, 1.12 degrees F (0.62 degree C) above the 20th century average of 59.9 degrees F (15.5 degrees C).
- Separately, the global ocean surface temperature for June 2009 was the warmest on record, 1.06 degrees F (0.59 degree C) above the 20th century average of 61.5 degrees F (16.4 degrees C).
- Each hemisphere broke its June record for warmest ocean surface temperature. In the Northern Hemisphere, the warm anomaly of 1.17 degrees F (0.65 degree C) surpassed the previous record of 1.12 degrees F (0.62 degree C), set in 2005. The Southern Hemisphere’s increase of 0.99 degree F (0.55 degree C) exceeded the old record of 0.92 degree F (0.51 degree C), set in 1998.
- The global land surface temperature for June 2009 was 1.26 degrees F (0.70 degree C) above the 20th century average of 55.9 degrees F (13.3 degrees C), and ranked as the sixth-warmest June on record.
The report also predicts the return of El Nino. Read about the impacts of rising sea temperatures in Alaska.
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