Here are excerpts from an article in the “Sydney Morning Herald”:
Also lending weight to Hansen’s analysis have been the extreme temperatures recorded as recently as this week. Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian who monitors extreme weather events, has a social media feed that is now a litany of shattered records. “South Africa is living a madness. Months with thousands of records destroyed every day,” he wrote on Wednesday. “Today 45.1C at Vioolsdrif, latest 45C in Southern Africa history.”
Days before he noted a temperature recorded in Turkmenistan of 35 degrees, 10 degrees above the previous record. “Latin America is boiling from Mexico to Argentina,” he wrote a day earlier. “Guyana 37.4 at Lethem, hottest March day in Guyana history set twice in few days.”
Read the full article here: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/scientists-struggle-to-explain-really-weird-spike-in-world-temperatures-20240320-p5fdvm.html
And here’s a compelling Guardian account of the record heat across much of Africa in recent weeks.