A broad swath of above-average land surface temperatures stretched across southern Australia in late January and early February 2009.
Published Feb 5, 2009
A series of heatwaves has been breaking temperature records across the nation.
Published Jan 31, 2019
Deep red paints the coastal mountains of southeastern Australia, hangs over the continent’s arid interior, and dots much of the rest of the land in this image, indicating that unusually high temperatures reigned in November 2006.
Published Dec 28, 2006
High-pressure ridges over the oceans drive warm-weather systems over the continents.
Published Jul 12, 2015
In the summer of 2016, extreme heat waves gripped Siberia, the Middle East, and North America.
Published Aug 11, 2016
Land surface temperatures were far above average in southeastern Australia during a springtime heatwave in November 2009.
Published Dec 1, 2009
Temperatures topping 118° F, 48° C, baked eastern Australia during the final days of 2013 and first week of 2014.
Published Jan 12, 2014
Weather records fell across the northeastern United States and Canada’s Ontario and Maritime provinces.
Published Nov 16, 2017
The small town of Eagle was hotter on May 23 than it has been on any day in Houston or Dallas this year.
Published May 27, 2015
Temperatures soared in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland.
Published Feb 21, 2017
The record-warm July continued a streak of ten consecutive months that have set new monthly high-temperature records.
Published Aug 21, 2016
England, Scotland, and Wales all recorded their warmest winter day ever in February 2019.
Published Mar 5, 2019
Unseasonably warm temperatures broke records across the United States.
Published Mar 21, 2012
This color-coded map shows above- and below-normal temperatures in early July 2010, when a heat wave struck much of North America and Eurasia.
Published Jul 16, 2010
One month after experiencing record-breaking temperatures, Europe again is sweltering under a heatwave. And this one is more intense.
Published Jul 26, 2019Image of the Day Heat Land Human Presence Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
Fires are raging in eastern Siberia in the midst of an unusually long-lived heat wave.
Published Jun 23, 2020Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Drought Fires Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
July 2012 was the world’s 4th hottest July recorded since 1880.
Published Aug 17, 2012
Long-term climate change got a boost from the developing El Niño and obliterated previous records.
Published Jan 21, 2016
In August 2018, temperature records fell in the northwestern United States.
Published Aug 15, 2018Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
This map depicts land surface temperature anomalies for July 20 to 27, 2011, in the midst of a month-long heatwave across much of the United States.
Published Aug 6, 2011
