World,s Highest Temperature Ever For May Observed In Turbat Last Year: Report

The world,s highest temperature ever for May was observed on May 28, 2017 in Turbat, western Pakistan, with a high of 128.3 degrees Fahrenheit (53.5 degrees Celsius), a major US report said.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Aug, 2018 ) :The world,s highest temperature ever for May was observed on May 28, 2017 in Turbat, western Pakistan, with a high of 128.3 degrees Fahrenheit (53.5 degrees Celsius), a major US report said.

The report, "State of the Climate in 2017", led by the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was published by the American Meteorological Society.

The annual State of the Climate Report, compiled by more than 450 scientists from over 60 countries, describes worsening climate conditions worldwide in 2017.

The record for hottest year in modern times was set in 2016, but 2017 was not far behind, with "much-warmer-than-average conditions" across most of the world, it said.

Annual record high temperatures were observed in Argentina, Bulgaria, Spain and Uruguay, while Mexico "broke its annual record for the fourth consecutive year," Space Daily reported.

Smashing more heat records, temperatures reached 110.1 degrees Fahrenheit (43.4 Celsius) on January 27 at Puerto Madryn, Argentina, "the highest temperature ever recorded so far south anywhere in the world.

" According to the report, in April 2017, Larkana, a city in the southern province of Sindh of Pakistan, experienced a record maximum temperature of 51.0 C on 20 April. On 28 May, Pakistan recorded its all-time highest temperature of 128.3 degrees Fahrenheit (53.5 degrees Celsius) in Turbat, tying the all-time highest temperature recorded in Moen Jo Daro, Pakistan, on 26 May 2010. It also became the world-record highest temperature for the month of May.

"The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998, with the four warmest years occurring since 2014," said the report.

Last year marked either the second or third hottest since the mid 1800s, depending on which data is consulted.

In another alarming milestone, 2017 was also "the warmest non-El Nino year in the instrumental record," referring to the absence of the occasional ocean warming trend that pushes temperatures higher than normal.