This probable all-time heat record is one of many set over the past 10 days because of numerous intense heat domes scattered around the Northern Hemisphere.
In addition to tying an all-time heat record for April 29, this month also is the warmest April on record for the District.
Its blistering afternoon high temperature of 121.6 degrees (49.8 Celsius) Tuesday was just about two degrees shy of Oman's all-time heat record and its highest June temperature, Masters reported.
It came after record-breaking heat on Tuesday, when all-time heat records were set in Carnegie in Western Australia (47.8C) and Tarcoola (49C), Port Augusta (48.9C) and Ernabella/Pukatja (44.5C) in South Australia.
It is not that any one day has set an all-time heat record, but a large area of the country has been assaulted by a succession of heat waves.
You probably already know the highlights: chaotic weather, regular records set for warmth on land and at sea (and 2014 heading for an all-time heat high), 355 months in a row of above-average temperatures, more ice melting faster, more ocean acidification, the "sixth extinction", the spread of tropical diseases, drops in food productivity with consequent famines.
Mr. Gore points out that 20 of the 21 hottest years measured "have occurred within the last 25 years," adding that the hottest year yet was 2005 a year in which "more than 200 cities and towns" in the Western United States set all-time heat records.
Mr. Gore points out that 20 of the 21 hottest years measured "have occurred within the last 25 years," adding that the hottest year yet was 2005 — a year in which "more than 200 cities and towns" in the Western United States set all-time heat records.
But since then, the world has seen three consecutive years of all-time heat records.
The past week's massive heatwave has been setting all-time heat records across the globe, and 2018 seems on track to be even hotter than 2017.
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