‘Boils’ the Mediterranean: the temperature of the sea surface reached the highest point ever recorded

The Mediterranean is overheated dangerously, according to the French Meteorological Service, and on Monday. June 30, the average sea surface temperature on the French coast of the sea reached a record point. The temperature “climbed” to the highest point ever recorded for June, according to this information, reaching 26.04 ° C. This temperature is almost 2 ° C higher than the average of the thirty years 1991-2020, while in the marine areas around the blue coast and the Corsica, the Gulf of Lions and the Balearic Islands the rise of temperatures is 5 ° C. According to a report by the French newspaper Le Monde this extremely early heatwave, which mainly affects the western part of the Mediterranean, could, if it insists and intensify, can test marine ecosystems and feed extreme weather. According to Timo Ginaldo, an oceanographer at the Météo-France/CNRS National Meteorological Research Center, the marine heatwaves are now common in the Mediterranean. […]
Source: News Beast

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