Summer temperatures peaking some thirty

to forty degrees above average in the sub-

Arctic. Forest fires burn through Siberia for

three months. Melting of this mass in Green-

land wasn’t predicted to happen until 2070,

but it happened this year. Siberia is warming

so quickly that the ground is collapsing. Taku

Glacier, one of the world’s thickest known,

officially joins all other glaciers in the process

of retreating. July is the hottest month

ever recorded in Alaska. July is the hottest July

ever recorded globally. July is the hottest

month recorded on Earth. But the single-largest

day of melting in Greenland isn’t recorded

until August 1. June also the hottest global
June on record. A melt-lake is found on Mont

Blanc. Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands

mark new peaks, hottest ever days. France’s

highest recorded temperature. Studies suggest

hundreds of puffins that washed up dead
on Alaskan shores simply couldn’t get enough

food. Glaciers in Pakistan moving at record pace.

A hail storm in Mexico is described as “bizarre”,

but then, Greenland had already lost 2 billion

tonnes of ice in one week in June, before
the typical melt season had really even begun.

Extreme drought in Chennai leads to brawling

over what little water is left. The second-driest

Delhi has been in twenty-six years, but Churu

also misses out on a record, 50.8 degrees C

not quite equalling 2016’s high of 51. Still,

the total number of deaths are unknown.

In May, Cyclone Fani is the strongest

storm to hit India in decades. In October

Tropical Cyclone Kyarr is the second-strongest

wind event recorded over the Arabian Sea,

contributing to an overall “most intense

cyclone season on record” for the Indian

Ocean. Indonesia announces plans to move

administration duties out of Jakarta,

which is sinking. Continental USA marks

its wettest ever twelve-month period. One

month’s worth of rain falls on DC in one

hour. Tropical storm Barry floods all around

the Gulf of Mexico. Monsoonal flooding

leads to landslides in Nepal. Vietnam records

its hottest ever day. Record March temperatures

in Alaska. Wildfires in the UK in February. Wildfires

in Sweden, Scotland and Norway. Polar

Bears invade a Russian island town, emergency

declared. Hurricane Dorian devastates

the Bahamas. Hundreds of October temperature

records broken in the USA. September

equals second-hottest there. Fires

and power outages make headlines
in California. Three islands disappeared

in the past year. Thousands dead to Cyclone

Idai, though its Kenneth which becomes the

strongest storm ever recorded in Mozambique.

Seventy dead in South African mudslides.

Australia’s top end sees sea water rising two

to three times faster than the global average.

Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef hits

new lows. Green Turtle hatchlings are now 99%

female due to warmer temperatures.

The hottest March on record in Australia.

Record flooding in Mid-West America.

Wildfires in Alberta. The worst floods

in years in Bangladesh. Record breaking

high temperatures in several cities
of America during a July heatwave.

January is the hottest month ever

recorded in Australia. Long-term drought

thought to play a role in the mass die-off

of a million fish from the Murray-Darling
river system, some of them long-lived

native species. By September some towns

in New South Wales expect to

completely run out of water. Record

October temperatures in parts of Victoria.
Perth has its hottest September,

driest in 42 years, second-hottest

October for Western Australia. A

record number of out of control

fires burning concurrently in
New South Wales in November.

Mussels cooking in their shells

off California. In Iceland Ok glacier

is not okay, but declared dead,

completely gone.