“Hong Kong sees record for hottest day in September broken twice.
The Hong Kong Observatory said a temperature of 35.4 degrees Celsius (95.7 Fahrenheit) was recorded on Tuesday afternoon, “once again breaking the record for highest temperature in September” since the city started keeping records in 1884.
“The previous hottest September day of 35.3C (95.5F) was set just last Monday, toppling a record that had stood since 1963.”
“Endless heat also in Japan with more September heat records broken.
“Yesterday new records were set at Kousa 36.3C [97.3F] and Aki 34.4C, while today Aki rose further to 34.6C and Miki to 34.7C. More records possible tomorrow as well.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1569629046564159493
“Rare ‘triple dip’ La Niña declared.
“The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has announced that the weather phenomenon La Niña has formed for the third consecutive year in the Pacific. This is only the third time since records began that there have been three consecutive La Niña events.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/62890361
“For the first time in three years, the El Niño probability is greater than the La Niña probability in long-range ENSO forecast.
“Remember El Niño? That’s when a bunch of ocean heat content stored in the equatorial Pacific is released and there is a spike in global temperatures.”
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1569730908797939715
“‘Unprecedented times’: floods ranked as Australia’s costliest ever disaster.
“Perils has upped its insured loss estimate for this year’s flooding in Queensland and NSW to $6.3 billion, making it a record catastrophe loss for the Australian insurance industry… “This event is now the largest insured catastrophe loss event experienced in Australia,” Perils Asia-Pacific Head Darryl Pidcock said.”
“Hawaii’s prolonged drought is pushing native species to the brink.
“Nearly all of Hawaii is currently experiencing some degree of drought, from “moderate” to “exceptional,” according to federal monitoring data. While this year is not as severe as the 7-year dry period that ended in 2015, it falls in line with a larger pattern of declining inundation in Hawaii over the last 30 years.”
https://www.popsci.com/environment/hawaii-drought-wildfire-endangered-species/
“Mountain glacier in Chile’s Patagonia collapses amid high temperatures.
“Higher temperatures and rainfall that weaken ice walls caused part of a hanging glacier to break off at a national park in Chile’s Patagonia region in an event captured on video by tourists. In a video that went viral Monday, a glacier that sits atop a mountain about 200 meters (656 feet) high rumbled and broke off at Queulat National Park…”
“Summer Heat Waves Caused Several Glaciers to Collapse.
“In the Italian Dolomites, the heat wave led to a total glacier collapse on July 3 after temperatures climbed to 50 degrees Fahrenheit… In Asia, a heat wave caused a July 8 glacier collapse in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan… A third glacier — central Switzerland’s St. Annafirn Glacier — is not long for the world as a result of the summer heat waves.”
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/09/13/summer-heat-waves-caused-several-glaciers-to-collapse/
“Megadrought in the American south-west: a climate disaster unseen in 1,200 years.
“The west is now in uncharted territory, as once singular conditions become the norm. Its mightiest reservoirs – Lake Mead and Lake Powell – are at record low levels and steadily shriveling. Prolonged, triple-digit heatwaves are making cities like Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, almost unlivable during summers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/us-west-megadrought-climate-disaster
“Air quality plummets as smoke from roaring wildfires chokes US west.
“California firefighters are battling large blazes across the state as the west’s fire season heats up, covering swaths of Oregon, Washington, California and Canada in heavy smoke that has also traveled across the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/12/california-wildfires-oregon-washington
“In Utah, drying Great Salt Lake leads to air pollution.
“Air pollution in Salt Lake City was so bad last year it set off the fire alarms in Elizabeth Joy’s clinic. Joy, a family and sports medicine doctor, said that her patients had to be evacuated as part of the emergency response.”
“Northeastern U.S. hit by rare drought killing crops, sparking fires.
“It’s barely September, but crops are withering and brown leaves carpet the ground. Forests are bursting into flames. An iconic river is, in some places, little more than a mud-choked stream. This isn’t the U.S. West… It’s the Northeast… for farmers from New York to Maine, the dry weather has been nothing short of disastrous, and rainfall last week provided little relief.”
“West Palm Beach breaks record of consecutive days with 90-degree temperatures…
“On Monday, West Palm Beach broke a record for a string of 90-degree days, according to the National Weather Service. The old record of 71 consecutive 90-degree days was set in 1951. Monday’s high temperature in West Palm Beach was 93. The streak of 90-degree days began on July 3.”
https://www.wptv.com/weather/expected-to-break-record-of-most-straight-days-with-90-temperatures
“Dominica did it again!
“With a temperature of 36.3C [97.3F] the Canefield Airport, near Roseau,set a new national record of highest temperature for any month, beating the 35.9C which was set few days ago at the same place.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1569410861936033792
“Now it’s starting. Never seen so vast tree mortality in Finland!
“All the blue dots are dead trees, a majority likely from last summer. The European spruce bark beetle, and other bark beetles, are gaining ground and quickly.”
https://twitter.com/SamuliJunttila/status/1569295046037614593
“Shocking pictures show Peak District reservoirs [UK] are at record low.
“The water levels in Peak District are still historically low after the drought was declared in Derbyshire last month. Summer in the county has been the driest in 50 years with the temperatures reaching almost 40 degrees.”
“France saw record temperatures for September hit the country, notably the southwest, amid a heatwave drifting up from Morocco, the Meteo-France weather service said Monday.
“The thermometer hit 39.1 degrees Celsius (102.4 degrees Fahrenheit) at Mont-de-Marsan in the southwestern Landes department and 39C at nearby Dax.”
https://www.barrons.com/news/france-sees-record-heat-for-september-01663008307
Also: “New NATIONAL RECORD for heat in September in France in progress with 40.7°C in Begaar in the Landes! It has never been so hot in September in France!”
https://www.centrepresseaveyron.fr/2022/09/12/vague-de-chaleur-ces-villes-qui-ont-frole-les-400c-en-ce-mois-de-septembre-de-tous-les-records-10539221.php
“New wildfires rage in southwestern France amid record temperatures.
“Hundreds of people have been evacuated in southwestern France as new wildfires rage amid record September temperatures. Around 540 people in the Gironde region have been moved from their homes after blazes broke out on Monday.”
“European Heat Wave: Records were set also of highest minimums yesterday in Spain with the first tropical September night at Valladolid (700m asl) with Tmin of 21.0C [70f]. Record also at Toledo (530m) with 23.8C and at Granada AP 23.2C.
“Today very hot in Catalunya with 38.0C at Cabanes.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1569732704090099713
“The wildfire that broke out last Thursday (8 September) in the Granada municipality of Los Guájares continues to rage and level one of the Emergency Plan for Forest Fires in Andalucía has been declared.
“After a “complicated” night that means the districts of Acebuches and Ízbor, in the municipality of El Pinar in Granada province are cut off, it was hoped that the rain would help dampen the flames.”
https://www.surinenglish.com/andalucia/granada-wildfire-los-guajares-20220913105422-nt.html
“Morocco Dam Water Levels Decrease to 25% Amid Severe Droughts…
“…this decrease in Moroccan dams’ water levels can be attributed to the historically low rainfalls the country has witnessed in the past year. This summer, the dry climate stemming from the alarming drought period caused several wildfires in the country’s northern regions.”
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2022/09/351313/dam-water-levels-decrease-to-25-amid-severe-droughts
“Warning: Nelson Mandela Bay metro drought could drag on for another six years.
“The catastrophic six-year drought gripping Nelson Mandela Bay metro could last for another six years, according to South Africa Weather Service.”
“UN warns cholera outbreak in Syria is a threat to the region.
“…the source of infection is believed to be linked to people drinking unsafe water from the Euphrates River and using contaminated water to irrigate crops, resulting in food contamination… the outbreak is an indicator of severe water shortages in Syria.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/warns-cholera-outbreak-syria-threat-region-89816244
“We are near mid-September but it’s still extremely hot in the Middle East. Temperatures have been reaching peaks of over 48C [118.4F] in the past days between Kuwait and Iraq and will keep doing so for the next 3 days. Very rare for this time of the year.“
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1569234362222235650
“Dust storm uproots tents of flood victims already made homeless in Pakistan.
“A dust storm in Sehwan town in Pakistan’s Sindh province on Monday uprooted hundreds of tents pitched at roadsides by people made homeless by the recent floods, as a fresh spell of rains expected in the middle of the month begins to set in, officials said.”
“‘We are drowning’: Pakistan floods push toxic lake over edge…
“…for the people living around Lake Manchar, the largest freshwater lake in Pakistan, the monsoon has compounded an environmental catastrophe that has been breaking up their community for a decade… The lake was once a haven for marine life, home to almost 32 species of fish including carp, catfish, tilapia, spiny eel and snakehead. Now, according to Maula Bakhsh, as few as six species are left.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/13/pakistan-floods-lake-manchar-environmental-catastrophe
“As Pakistan floods and India curbs rice exports, Africa braces for high prices.
“The devastating floods in Pakistan, which plunged great swaths of agricultural land under water – coupled with India’s decision to curb its rice exports – risk exacerbating food insecurity in the African countries most dependent on imports from Asia.”
You can read the previous “Climate” thread here. I’ll be back tomorrow with an “Economic” thread.
If you found value in this content, please help me continue this work by becoming a patron of my work via Patreon. And if you are already a subscriber or have donated – thank you! It is an enormous help as the cost-of-living crisis ratchets up here in the UK.
Here in South Florida and the record of 90 degree plus days is remarkable.
It only is mentioned on the local weather report and nothing is connected to the trend of the warming climate. Can’t upset the developers, who are full speed in building high rise condos to the point of corrupting the local city commissioners in approving projects that infringe on common sense and easing restrictions.
I shutter to think what will happen in the not to near future with sea level rise, severe hurricane event and fuel and food rationing.