During the first seven months of the year, the Earth’s global land and ocean surface temperature set its second-highest heat record. We end the first half of 2020 as the hottest 1st half of any year ever recorded in #Miami. The ratio of record heat to record cold temperatures so far is121 to 1among the 3 main airports in Key West, Ft Lauderdale & Miami. “But the death of those two little caps that I once knew so well has made climate change very personal. “This year, we expect more, stronger and longer-lived storms than average,” said Dr. Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

Source: Huffington Post August 22, 2020 09:45 UTC