summer solstice Thursday signals the end of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of a brand new season that promises more warmth and more sunshine. To mark the transition to summer 2024, the astronomy event serves as a grand opening of sorts: It will be the longest day of the year everywhere above… Read More »
Summer will officially arrive in the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday, June 20 at 4:51 PM EDT (2051 GMT) – the June Solstice. At that moment, Sun It will reach the northernmost point of the celestial equator. To be more precise, when the solstice occurs, the sun will appear to shine directly overhead at a point… Read More »
The summer of 2023 will be the hottest summer in the non-tropical regions of the northern hemisphere in 2000 years, a new study has shown. Surface air temperatures in June, July and August 2023 across this vast tract spanning Europe, Asia and North America were 2°C higher than the average summer temperature between AD 1… Read More »
Last summer’s 2015 Paris Agreement, which aimed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, has already been violated. SoilThe hottest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2000 years. More specifically, new estimates from tree ring records show that the summer of 2023 is 2.07 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial… Read More »
Last summer’s sweltering heat broke more than city, regional and even national records. Scientists say that the summer of 2023 in the Northern Hemisphere will be the hottest summer in 2000 years, with what they call an “alarming finding”. Global data already showed this last summer. It was the hottest on record. Copernicus, the European… Read More »
The scorching summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, according to a new study. When temperatures soared last year, multiple weather agencies said it was the hottest month, summer and year on record. But these records date back to 1850 at best because they are based on… Read More »
‘Basic principles agreed’ ahead of Club World Cup launch in 2028 Momentum is building towards the first Club World Cup in 2028, with power brokers hoping to stage the 16-team tournament over four weeks in the northern hemisphere in June that year. Insiders suggested there was “positive momentum” behind the plans and that “fundamental principles… Read More »
Spring, summer, autumn and winter; Seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time each year. It’s easy to accept this cycle as it is on Earth, but not every planet has a regular change in seasons. So why does Earth experience regular seasons that do not exist on other planets? I am… Read More »
DENVER (AP) — Snowpacks in river basins around the world that were once regularly covered in snow are shrinking, and climate change is to blame, a new study finds. “Many of the world’s most populous basins are on the verge of rapid snow declines,” concluded the study of snow amounts since 1981 in Wednesday’s journal… Read More »
Large swathes of the United States were hit by powerful storms, including blizzards that blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast with snow. But something is wrong: In many states accustomed to white winters, it is now raining more than snow. A new study published Wednesday shows that the human-caused climate crisis has reduced snowpack… Read More »