After a year of hard work, we close 2021 by taking a look at our historic model data to detect some high- and lowlights from the 2021 meteorological year.
Temperatures reached above 50°C around the Persian Gulf (guess where?) and in the Sahara, and close to 50°C in Australia, California, India, Uzbekistan and ... Southern Europe, but some other regions also experienced unusually torching temperatures above 40°C, such as parts of USA, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, Australia and others. Maxima reached above 35°C in large parts of Africa and Europe, as well as in unusual regions, such as Siberia and North of Canada.
Precipitation was, as expected, very unevenly distrrbuted: some regions received nothing, some more than 10'000 mm of precipitation, with a maximum of 16'825 mm - guess where? Some regions experienced severe droughts in 2021, such as Afghanistan, Sahel zone and the Chaco - some others flooding, as in Germany, Brazil, Australia, amongst many others, or record snowfall.
Strong Winds assailed several regions during the year of 2021: Although the worst storms actually stay at sea, several coastlines were battered by windspeeds above 120 km/h, and even some inland areas (American Great Plains, East Andes, Inner China, Mongolia and Siberia experienced winds with more than 100 km/h on a larger scale. Local wind systems, such as jets, squally and tornados , are obviously not included in these summaries, since they occur at much more local scale and can either not be detected or not shown in such a global summary.
Temperatures in 2021 averaged 10.1°C over land, compared with 10.2°C average 2011-2020 and 9.7°C average 1991-2000. The developments for each regioin worldwide can be found on our climate change page.
Our archive will show you many more events pertinent to your local conditions.
We are also offering some free point+ subscriptions for 2022, for those of you who write us with a precise guess of where the maximum temperatures and precipitation sums occured in 2021. Write us until 09.Jan.2022 with the title "2021 maxima" and include the estimated variable value (temperature and or precipitation) and the precise location where these occured. Every message with a distance of less than 100 km from the real location will get a free 1-year point+ subscription.
We thank you for your interest and wish you a Happy and Healthy 2022!
