On average, 2010 seems to have been as hot as 2005, which was probably the hottest year ever recorded, according to NOAA :-
https://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110112_globalstats.html
Whatever the other datasets show, 2010 was certainly one unusually warm year, definitely in the warmest. Yet what interests me more is that it was also the wettest.
Rain got dumped around the world, in large, emptying-the-bath type events. The heavens really opened. Sheets of rain fell suddenly out of the skies.
One report of serious rainfall and flooding (or storms and flooding) was followed by another, and another. It was subjectively a year of unceasing rain, even before the objective records were counted.
There was Central America of course. And parts of deep Europe. Then Pakistan, which nobody could have missed. There were major Typhoons causing untold havoc in East Asia. The Caribbean was not spared. Parts of the United States of America became swampland.
Even though the BBC have only just woken up to the fact that the East Coast of Australia is suffering unusually high levels of precipitation, torrential rain and flooding have been going on there for at least a month :-
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/hundreds-cut-off-by-deadly-floods-20101208-18pxi.html
It’s so significant, it’s even got its own Wikipedia page :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Queensland_floods
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12173846
The BBC TV News anchormen and anchorwomen think that we can all breath a sigh of relief because the peak of the Brisbane flood wasn’t as bad as had been feared, but seriously, it’s laughable to try to find something positive about what’s happening.
Unfortunately, things could still continue to get worse, even in Brisbane.
Check the live satellite :-
Wake up, Ms and Mr BBC news correspondent ! This is a major, persisting crisis, and it’s not over yet.
