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Weather Words: Surface Temperature

Surface temperature is the temperature on the ground level, which often determines when roads freeze, helping explain why icy ...
Global average temperatures surged again in 2025, placing the year among the three warmest on record and indicating a ...
Right now, the temperature of the Earth is pretty much perfect for humans, at around 13.9 degrees Celsius, or 57 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes, that is much lower than "room temperature," which is around 20 ...
The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...
Hurricanes feed off of warm ocean waters. What happens then when that ocean heat is made 400 times more likely due to human-caused climate change? You get record-shattering Hurricane Beryl. Unusually ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — June 2023 was the Earth's hottest June since records began 174 years ago. Both land and sea have gone down in the history books this year for record-high temperatures. June 2023 ...
The correlation between Arctic wildfires and abnormal snow cover under global warming is of growing concern. A comprehensive ...
We live in a rapidly warming world. Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging Earth’s climate to a warmer and warmer state, further changing our planet as sea levels rise, living ...
Lake Havasu and Lake Austin rank among the warmest lakes for swimming in the country, according to a WorldAtlas report.