NASA recognises May 2016 to be the hottest month in the northern hemisphere

These days, global temperature records are broken like moulds of wet clay, because of increasing temperatures and a disturbed ecosystem. The records were broken yet again last month, says NASA, claiming that it was the hottest spring ever for the entire northern hemisphere. moulds of wet clay, because of increasing temperatures and a disturbed ecosystem. The records were broken yet again last month, says NASA, claiming that it was the hottest spring ever for the entire northern hemisphere.

The effects of this bouldering heat were seen especially in the Arctic region, which resulted in the annual melting of the Arctic sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet taking place quite earlier than usual. Not only this, the snow cover in the northern hemisphere is also stated to be exceptionally low.

May not only saw these record-breaking temperatures, but also witnessed other extreme events like very heavy precipitation in parts of Europe and the southern US, and widespread and severe coral reef bleaching.

"The state of the climate so far this year gives us much cause for alarm," said David Carlson, Director of the World Climate Research Programme.

"Exceptionally high temperatures. Ice melt rates in March and May that we don't normally see until July. Once-in-a-generation rainfall events. The super El Nino is only partly to blame," Carlson added.

The high temperatures were also fuelled by the now dissipated strong El Nino. However, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, majorly due to human activities, continued to be the fundamental cause of global warming.

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