The all-time highest temperature records were broken by more than 400 weather stations around the world in 2011.
An annual list of records broken in the previous year is published by Maximiliano Herrera. He and many other climatologists and meteorologists who follow these issues believe that the year of 2021 will probably not be the hottest year in history.
It is likely to be in the top six or five. The last six years have been the hottest on record.
Several heat records have been broken. Ten countries broke or tied their national highest record, while over 100 countries beat their monthly high temperature record.
Africa had its warmest June and September ever. The highest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C in Syracuse, Italy, in August. In the US's Death Valley, the highest reliably recorded temperature was 54.4C in July. The temperature in 2020 was rounded up to 130F.
There were a few events that stood out for experts. The two consecutive failed rain seasons in Kenya were unusual, and forced the government to organize for food aid for the first time in years.
Climate change can be seen in the weather in our country. We think we will have seen a higher than normal temperature in some parts of the country in 2021. The shifts are very noticeable, from one extreme to another in a very short time.
CWB, a group of broadcast meteorologists and weather presenters from around the world who share information on extreme weather events, was one of the reasons that Nying'uro helped found. They support weather presenters to communicate with the public about climate change.
The European summer heatwaves, which broke records in a number of countries, and were accompanied by wildfires around the Mediterranean, were pointed to by Scott Duncan, who collects data on world weather. A hot March, a cold April, and floods in July were preceded by a hot March, a cold April, and floods in July. Those events stood out to me.
The heat in Alaska in December broke a number of records. That was extraordinary.
The China Meteorological Administration said that China experienced its hottest year. The central province of Henan was hit by more rain in three days than it normally gets in a year. Hundreds died, crops and homes were destroyed, and the clean up continues. The situation last year had been abnormal according to the deputy head of the National Climate Centre.
Warming was the main theme of China's climate in 2021. Extreme weather and climate events have become the norm in the context of global warming, which is a major challenge to disaster prevention.
The deep freeze in Texas in February was one of the key unusual weather events last year. Nearly 200 people died, millions of homes were without power, and the repercussions led to huge political rows.
The failure of the power grid in Texas and dozens of deaths were caused by climate change, according to Guy Walton, an activist meteorologist who has been campaigning on climate change since the late 1980s. The mild fall and warm December made for the warmest December on record for the United States. The National Centers for Environmental Information should make this official in the next couple of days.
The most important event of the year was the extreme heatwave that hit the west coast of the US in June/July, causing a heat dome and breaking records. It was called "way beyond the upper bound" and "surprising and shaking" by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute at the time.
The year was full of extreme events. If I have to name one, I will name every single one of them. The event was nicknamed the mother of all heatwaves.
I would never have believed it to be possible. The magnitude of this event surpassed anything I have seen before in my research of extreme events in modern world history.
In the first few days of the year in the UK and the US, a number of records were shattered.
