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The 2024–25 North American winter is the current winter season that is ongoing across the continent of North America.The most notable events of the season so far have included a powerful bomb cyclone that impacted the West Coast of the United States in mid-to-late November, as well as a severe lake-effect snowstorm in the Great Lakes later that month.
The Copernicus Programme reported that 2024 continued 2023's series of record high global average sea surface temperatures. [6]2024 Southeast Asia heat wave. For the first time, in each month in a 12-month period (through June 2024), Earth’s average temperature exceeded 1.50 °C (2.70 °F) above the pre-industrial baseline.
The hot season in Mexico began on 17 March 2024. [5] In May 2024, a heat dome formed over the Southern Gulf of Mexico and over Mexico, which led to record high temperatures being recorded in 10 cities in Mexico. [1] Mexico City recorded a record high temperature of 34.7 °C (94.5 °F) on 25 May 2024. [2]
This year is on track to beat 2023’s record heat, the World Meteorological Organisation said.
Dozens of locations in the West and Pacific Northwest tied or broke previous heat records in recent days, and more than 165 daily high temperature records could be tied or broken this week.
The Gulf and South Atlantic states have a humid subtropical climate with mostly mild winters and hot, humid summers. Most of the Florida peninsula including Tampa and Jacksonville, along with other coastal cities like Houston, New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington all have average summer highs from near 90 to the lower 90s F, and lows generally from 70 to 75 °F (21 to 24 °C ...
Tropical cyclones normally threaten the states during the summer and fall, with their main impact being rainfall. [3] Although Hurricane Agnes was barely a hurricane at landfall in Florida, its major impact was over the Mid-Atlantic region, where Agnes combined with a non-tropical low to produce widespread rains of 6 inches (150 mm) to 12 inches (300 mm) with local amounts up to 19 inches (480 ...
In the West, the hottest days of the week will be Tuesday to Friday, with temperatures expected to soar past 100 degrees. This will lead to numerous record highs for cities like Las Vegas, Phoenix ...