June 2024 was the warmest June on record to date. Twelve months in a row, the temperature has been 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, according to scientists. It is also the thirteenth month in a row with record heat, shows the report from the EU’s climate monitoring service C3S. – This is more than a statistical oddity, and it highlights a large and persistent shift in our climate, says Carlo Buontempo, who heads the climate monitoring service. This year’s June is 0.67 degrees higher than June last year, which was the warmest June to date. – Inevitably, records will be broken In the last twelve months, the average temperature on Earth was the highest ever recorded. The temperature was 0.76 degrees above the reference period 1991-2020, according to the researchers. It also means that the level is 1.64 degrees above pre-industrial times – which is based on the level in the period 1850–1900. – Even if this specific series of extreme temperatures should end at some point, we will experience new records as the climate continues to warm. It is inevitable, unless we stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and to the oceans, says Buontempo. Although unusual, there was also a period of record heat that spanned several months in 2015–2016. Festival guests at the Waterfront Blues Festival in Oregon in the USA are feeling the heat. A heat wave has moved over western parts of the country Photo: Jenny Kane / AP/NTB Europe: Hot in the south and east, cooler in the north As for Europe, this year’s June was the second warmest on record. However, the picture is varied. While the south-eastern areas and Turkey had heat that was higher than normal, the degree scale was about normal or lower in Western Europe, in Iceland and in North-West Russia. In other parts of the world, scientists have recorded the highest temperatures in relation to normal in eastern Canada, in the western United States, in Mexico, Brazil, northern Siberia, the Middle East, northern Africa and western Antarctica. At the same time, temperatures are below normal in eastern parts of the Pacific Ocean, which suggests that the weather phenomenon La Niña is developing. La Niña is a condition of unusually low surface temperature in the central and eastern Pacific near the equator. Nevertheless, the air temperature is unusually high in many regions, according to the climate monitoring service Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The report further shows that the average sea surface temperature for June was the highest recorded for this month. It is the fifteenth month in a row with a heat record. Heavy rainfall and flooding June was otherwise wetter than average in Central Europe, as well as in large parts of the south and west. Heavy rainfall led to flooding in regions of Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland. The month was drier than usual in Ireland, most of Great Britain, and the area that includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula and Karelia in Russia. Southern Italy and areas in Eastern Europe also received less rainfall than normal, particularly in regions around the Black Sea. Outside Europe, it was wetter than usual in parts of North America, which also experienced a number of storms, including hurricane Beryl. South-west and south-east Asia, southern Africa and regions of Australia and South America also received more rainfall than normal. Sea ice 12 per cent below average In the Arctic, sea ice was 3 per cent below average, close to the values observed in most years since 2010. But in the south, Antarctic sea ice was 12 per cent below average. It is the second lowest prevalence for June, according to satellite data recorded. The level is below the lowest June value of minus 16 per cent, which was observed in 2023. Published 08/07/2024, at 04.54 Updated 08.07.2024, at 04.55
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