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Currently in Seattle — October 3, 2023: Grey, drizzly day
Plus, El Niño continues to accelerate global temperatures.
Loren Drummond & Eric Holthaus
October 02, 2023
The weather, currently.
Chance of light showers
Tuesday is mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. The showers will likely be before 8 a.m. but should be pretty light. And if you have a later morning commute, you might still want to pack your rain gear. The clouds could still spit out a bit of light drizzle throughout the day.
It won’t be too cold or windy, with a high of 61 in late afternoon, but I’m afraid we’re looking at a kind of gray and cool day. Definitely a day to fix up some ramen or have that extra cup of tea in the afternoon.
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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