NASA: July was the hottest month since records – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

July had been the second warmest month in Portugal since 1931. On Tuesday, NASA confirmed the trend in the rest of the world and concludes that the month of July was the hottest since 1880, start date records . Accounts made July was the hottest month of the last 136 years, highlights a statement from NASA.

The results, a combination of sea surface temperature and air on land registered by NASA, show that, this year, the month of July was 0.84 degrees Celsius warmer than the average recorded between 1950 and 1980 and 0.11 degrees warmer than the record registered in July last year.

world record demonstrated by the space agency’s report was shared on Twitter by the director of the Goddard Institute for NASA’s space Studies, Gavin Schmidt

David Karoly, a scientist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, projects.: it is likely that 2016 will become one of the hottest years – if not the hottest – , since records began, quotes British newspaper the Guardian . Numbers continue the trend of monthly maximum, recorded the 10th consecutive month.

According to experts, the increase in temperature is the result of a combination of global warming and the El Nino, the weather phenomenon characterized by warm currents in the Pacific Ocean and has high temperatures global. Compared to previous years, the hottest temperatures last month were more pronounced in the northern hemisphere, particularly near the Antarctic region, can be read in the same statement.

The scientist points out that NASA compares current temperatures with temperatures basis of which assigns a 0.5 degree increase based on global warming, which means that if the temperature increase subtract the greenhouse, then the rise was 1.3 degrees Celsius compared with the average the pre-industrial era.

Karoly added that at least 0.2 degrees are due to the effects of El Niño. Still, despite the impact of abnormal warming of waters – that is to be felt during the second half of this year – , the great responsibility of rising temperatures falls on climate change induced by human footprint. El Niño has already spread, but the effects will last for three to six months.

In Portugal, the numbers of the Sea Portuguese Institute and the Atmosphere (IPMA) recorded an average temperature maximum air in July at 32.19 degrees Celsius. The average value of the precipitation amount (3.1 millimeters) was below the normal value (13,8 millimeters).