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Currently in Denver — October 3, 2023: Maybe rainy
Plus, El Niño continues to accelerate global temperatures.
Eric Holthaus & Julia Dinmore
October 02, 2023
The weather, currently.
Maybe Rainy
Mother Nature has answered our dry land’s call for moisture! 🙏 Maybe . . . there’s a 20% chance of showers slated for the morning and early afternoon. Once the threat of rain passes, skies should be pretty clear. Yet again, winds will be a bit feistier, gusting upwards of 20 mph. Not too crazy, but notable.
Temperatures will reach a high of 83 degrees. With that heat and clear skies for the second half of the day, any sidewalk wetness from earlier showers should be gonzo by the time we’re all headed to bed. Stay dry out there!
What you need to know, currently.
New data show that the last week of September was the most anomalously warm week in history. That’s not so surprising given that we’re going into what looks like a very strong El Niño — the tropical Pacific warmth that defines these linked ocean-atmosphere patterns typically starts spreading worldwide during the last four months of the year.
Here’s more, from CarbonBrief:
Global surface temperatures set a new record this week for the highest daily temperature anomalies (departure from the norm) ever observed. They were recorded by a Japanese climate database called the JRA-55 reanalysis product. These were approximately 1C warmer than the 1991-2020 baseline period used by the dataset and around 1.9C warmer than the pre-industrial (1850-1900) temperatures.
As Currently reported last week, these data add to the increasing likelihood that we may already be living in the first 12-month period that’s 1.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, and that a few upcoming weeks may top 2°C for the first time ever.
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