The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency US NOAA , said Wednesday that last October was the warmest of the planet since 1880 began to be continuously record.
According to the US meteorological authority, the global average temperature in October reached 15.9 degrees Celsius, which amounts to 0.85 degrees Celsius average sea surface temperature recorded in the twentieth century.
The NOAA said the influence of the phenomenon of “ El Niño “, which takes place in the Pacific, the weather conditions registered.
During October, the surface temperatures of the sea “were well above average from 1981-2010 in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific,” according to the analysis released by the Center for Climate Prediction NOAA.
This exceeds the previous record set in 2014 by 0.15 ° C and any month since records began in 1880, exceeding the record high last September by 0.04 ° C.
The first 10 months of 2015 “include the warmest period in the land and sea area of record, 0.86 ° C above the average of the twentieth century.”
In the United States, October was the hottest month since 1963 and the fourth warmest since the start of the national register in 1895, while in Europe, Denmark is the driest since 1972.
In Africa, temperatures of October were “much warmer than average” registered.
On the count of weather anomalies October 2015, NOAA said the “ice extent Arctic marine was 13.4% lower than in 1981 “, since satellite records began in 1979.
Australia, meanwhile, was the warmest October since 1910, and the Southern Ocean experienced an increase of 1.2% over 1981.
According to the NOAA report, the first ten months of 2015 are the hottest period from January to October since records began.
NOAA scientists think that is very likely to end this year as the warmest on record, beating 2014.
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