This July was the hottest on record for both Edmonton and Calgary. This weekend, multiple communities across the province broke single-day temperature records. On the whole, this was the third-warmest summer in Edmonton.
It's been a hot, record-setting summer in Alberta. And it's not over yet.And on Monday, multiple communities across the province broke single-day temperature records.The records keep coming, but what do they mean?
July in Edmonton had 11 days at or above 30 C. On average, Edmonton sees about two days at or above 30 C in July. Beyond extreme weather, pushing global average temperatures past 1.5 C would have serious impacts on sea-level rise, and could possibly start triggering climate tipping points, such as the irreversible melt of the Arctic permafrost or a change in major ocean currents that regulate global weather.A woman uses a fan as she walks with her companion on a hot day in Beijing in June. June 2024 was the hottest June on record, according to Europe's Copernicus climate service.
"There is nothing magical about 2 C, or 1.5 C. There's nothing that says that those thresholds are special in some physically meaningful way for the world as a whole," he said.
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