2022 was the hottest October on record in Europe, according to Copernicus
2022 saw the warmest October on record in Europe, On Tuesday 8 November, the European Climate Watch Service Copernicus announced. Average temperatures were “Almost two degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 reference period.”defines the organization In a press release. The organization had already announced in September that Summer 2022 was the hottest everwith temperatures above the normal 1.34 degrees Celsius.
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“The catastrophic consequences of climate change are now clear and we need ambitious climate action at COP27 to ensure emissions reductions to stabilize temperatures close to the 1.5°C target set by the Paris Agreement.”Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) commented.
According to the European Service, “The heat wave led to record daily temperatures in Western Europe and a record October in Austria, Switzerland and France, as well as a large part of Italy and Spain”.
Europe, the continent where temperatures are rising the fastest
The European continent is the fastest in warming. Over the past 30 years, a warming of more than twice the global average has been recorded there, with a warming of about +0.5 degrees Celsius per decade, according to the a report From the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and C3S published on 2 November. In October, in certain parts of the continent, this abnormal heat, as in summer, was added to the lack of rain. “The weather was drier than average for much of southern Europe and the Caucasus”Copernicus notes. in contrast, “On the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, parts of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland, in the northwest of Scandinavia, in most of Eastern Europe and in central Turkey, the weather has been wetter than average”.
in the rest of the world, “Canada has seen record temperatures, well above average temperatures seen in Greenland and Siberia”. exactly the contrary, “Coldest temperatures compared to average were recorded in Australia, the Far East of Russia and parts of West Antarctica”.
Since the end of the nineteenth centurye In the last century, the Earth’s temperature has increased by nearly 1.2°C, with about half of that increase occurring in the past 30 years. The year 2022, which sees successive climate disasters, is expected to rank fifth or sixth in terms of heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which published its report on Sunday. Interim annual report on the state of the climate.
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