Weather & Science
September Broke the Global Heat Record by a ‘Gobsmackingly Bananas’ Margin
The month blew past a previous record by 0.5C, and scientists are running out of ways to describe the recording-setting year.
A tourist speaks with a tour guide under the shade of an umbrella in London during an early September heat wave. The world just experienced the hottest September on record.
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The global average temperature for September broke records by such an absurd margin that climate experts are struggling to describe the phenomenon.
“This month was — in my professional opinion as a climate scientist — absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” Zeke Hausfather, a researcher with Berkeley Earth, said on the social media platforms Bluesky and X.