September temperatures set records; 2023 on track to hotest ever; North American Great Lakes affected

September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it 'mind-blowing' After a record-smashing hot summer, Earth's warming somehow got even worse in September. The European climate agency says temperatures last month set a new mark for how far above normal they hit. AP News

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Last month’s average temperature was 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1991-2020 average for September. That’s the warmest margin above average for a month in 83 years of records kept by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. ...

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