February has an overall average surface temperature of 1.35 degrees Celsius above the average 1951-1980.
A combination of a strong El Niño
in the Pacific Ocean and the warming caused warming drove temperatures in
February 2016 to levels never before been seen since records began in 1880,
according to new data from NASA.
The data show that February had
an overall average surface temperature of 1.35 degrees Celsius above the
average 1951-1980.
The anomaly of 1.35 degrees
Celsius temperature in February broke the previous record high average output
for any month seen in January 2016.
Gavin Schmidt, director of the
Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) tweeted the temperature analysis.
"Normally I do not comment
individual months, but last month was special," wrote Mr. Schmidt.
According to NASA, the average
surface temperature during January was 1.14 degrees Celsius above average
compared to the average from 1951 to 1980.
This means that temperatures in
February 2016 had the highest average output of any month in NASA records since
1880, reported Mashable.
The warmest previous February was
in 1998, which was also a year with extremely strong El Nino, NASA said.
However, in an important indication
of how far human-caused global warming has changed baseline global climate
February 2016 they took 0.846 degrees hotter than February 1998, despite the
similar intensity of El Niño events in both years.
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