Sao Paulo – it Seems old news. But it happened again. And it will continue happening while the world is unable to contain its emissions of greenhouse gases.
By 11.Th consecutive month, the Earth hit a record heat in the month of August, as announced on Wednesday, the 14th, the u.s. space agency (Nasa).
It was the warmest August of the last 136 years, following a trend that has been repeating month-to-month, year-on-year, as a clear signal of heating global caused by the actions of human beings.
In relation to the base period (value of the average temperature between 1951 and 1980) for August, the average temperature of the Earth in the past month was 0,98°C warmer.
it Was still 0,16°C higher than the warmest August recorded up to then, the of 2014.
From October 2015 that the temperature is breaking records successive monitoring that began to be made in 1880.
Maintaining the pace for the next few months, 2016 should be the new hottest year in the history, surpassing 2015, which, in turn, hit 2014.
“We stress that the long-term trends are most important for the understanding of the ongoing changes that are affecting our planet,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of Goddard Institute for Space Studies of Nasa.
São Paulo
And the hot seems to have continued for the month of September, at least if they are taken as an example of the recorded temperatures in the state capital.
Though for this Thursday, the 15th, the forecast be of the mild climate, the city has been going on for days abnormally warm and dry.
The early morning hours of Wednesday, the 14th, was the warmest in São Paulo since April 20, with a minimum temperature of 21.9°C.
The value, although not a record, far surpassing the historical average of minimum temperatures in the early morning hours for the month, which is 14.8°C. The Tuesday afternoon also had already registered the highest temperatures since April 18, 32.4°C.
The heat is accompanied by dryness. On the afternoon of Tuesday, the relative humidity of the air was very low, around 19% at the beginning of the afternoon. Values in this range have been recorded since the end of August.
The public relations Solange White, 47-year-old, who suffers with rhinitis, conjunctivitis and other allergies, to skin, to the account that has suffered so much in recent days.
so Much so that he decided to flee to the River on Tuesday. “My life turns into chaos in the winter. I have a humidifier at home and like to control the allergies with homeopathy. But on those dry days, when it comes to crisis, then I have to take anti-histamine every day.”
according To the forecast of the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet), on Thursday the temperature falls (lies between 14°C and 23°C) and the humidity rises to up to 95%. The information is from The newspaper o Estado de S. Paulo.
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