Really? You're looking at the graph, showing a clear and frankly ominous anomaly, especially in the context of the clear wording around "the oceans should be warmest in March, not August", and this is your response? Well done.
You'd hope that the kind of audience that this site has would be able to read and understand graphs and statistics. But seems like nope.
Imagine looking at e.g. some service RPC logs and seeing P95 latencies off the charts during certain peak hours of the day but then just taking the average of the whole day and being like "only 10ms higher than the day before so it's fine"
I mean, I failed high school math but have since had to learn enough stats in my career to understand the consequences of ignoring variance...
(the comment above mentioned the current temperature being only 0.01°C higher than the previous record in March)
> Since total ocean heat capacity is about 1000x greater than total atmosphere, it means that a barely measurable temperature increase in the ocean (1/1000th of a degree C) could drive a massive spike in global air temperature (1 degree C).
> Mid-winter temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in South America leave climatologists in disbelief
> Data from Chile's national meteorological agency, Dirección Meteorológica de Chile, shows several weather stations in the country reached temperatures above 35C on August 1.
> This is between 10C and 20C above what is normal for this time of year in parts of Chile and Argentina, according to data from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
> What's causing South America's heat? Dr Perkins-Kirkpatrick said the South American heat extremes were also likely to bear the fingerprints of climate change.
> "There are likely multiple causes to these temperatures — record warm sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic, the developing El Niño in the Pacific, a heat dome that was recently over the region combined with foehn winds, and anthropogenic climate change," she said.
