 The Northern Hemisphere, which holds 90% of the world's population, just experienced its hottest meteorological summer on record, tied with 2016, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Monday.For the year-to-date, 2019 is the third-warmest year on record after 2016 and 2017.According to NOAA, nine of the 10 highest June-through-August global land and ocean surface temperatures have occurred since 2009. The Northern hemisphere had the hottest summer (June to August) on record. It was 2nd hottest at global level. The last five June-August periods are the five hottest on record, per @NOAANCEIclimate ClimateAction https://t.co/p2I6NC9KYJ pic.twitter.com/JC6D20nWAr -- WMO | OMM (@WMO) September 16, 2019It was the second-hottest summer at a global level, according to NOAA, along with the second-hottest August on record for the planet.There have been around 40 child hot car deaths this summer, but that number is still behind last year for the summer. There was roughly 31 from June to August in 2018 and around 29 from June to August in 2019. A bird sits on a straw bale on a field in Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises during an ongoing heatwave in Europe on July 25, 2019, (AP Photo/Michael Probst, FILE) South America, Africa, Europe, the Gulf of Mexico and the Hawaiian region had a temperature departure from average for the summer months that ranked among the three warmest such periods on record. Africa, for example, had its warmest
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