In 2024, 65% Of The Planet's Surface Experienced At Least One Month Of Record Breaking Heat
Ed. - Apologies for the spotty nature of this post, but the Guardian's article is a scrolling graphics display. Very cool, but I can't reproduce it here.
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The western part of the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) saw their hottest January on record in 2024. Parts of the mountain range saw the temperature record smashed by over 5C. Winter snow cover was low in the mountains, whose rivers supply water to a quarter of humanity.
The HKH glaciers are projected to shrink by 30-50% this century even in a best-case scenario for cutting carbon pollution. “It is really scary,” said Arun Bhakta Shrestha, a climate scientist at Nepal’s International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. “I have seen how glaciers have been receding, lakes have been forming … and white mountains have been turning into black rock faces.”
South America was hit by record-breaking monthly air temperatures in almost every month of 2024, but through March to June temperatures were consistently extreme in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and the Amazonas state of Brazil. Wildfires swept across the continent in 2024, and drought hit the Amazon. Even the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, went up in flames.
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In every month of 2024, the the oceans experienced record surface air temperatures. The Atlantic was especially hot in the first half of the year. Parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans broke monthly air temperature records by over 1C for every month. What that means to people is “an explosion of extreme events of all sorts,” said Regina Rodrigues, an ocean scientist at Brazil’s Federal University of Santa Catarina.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/feb/20/two-thirds-of-the-earths-surface-experienced-record-heat-in-2024-see-where-and-by-how-much-visualised