Summer 2024 was the hottest since records began

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According to the study, the global average temperature from June to August was 0.69 degrees above the average for the reference period from 1991 to 2020.

Copernicus relies on a data set based on billions of measurements from satellites, ships, airplanes, and weather stations worldwide. Europe also experienced the warmest summer since records began, with an average temperature 1.54 degrees above the 1991 to 2020 period.

In August, the average global surface temperature was 16.82 degrees Celsius, 1.51 degrees above the pre-industrial level.

The Mark of 1.5 degrees exceeded
Therefore, the 1.5-degree mark has already been exceeded in 12 of the past 13 months. Nevertheless, the Paris climate target of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels in the long term has not yet been missed.

However, the global average temperature was 1.64 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average from 1850 to 1900, based on the average of the past twelve months.
On course for the warmest year ever recorded
Of course, the current year is again the warmest ever recorded. According to Copernicus, the average global temperature anomaly since the beginning of the year was 0.7 degrees above the average of the reference period from 1991 to 2020—the highest value ever measured.

The hottest summer ever: 2024 sets new climate records
To avoid a record year, the deviation would have to fall by at least 0.3 degrees for the remaining months—something that has never happened before, according to the Copernicus report.

Hottest June and August
“In the last three months of 2024, the Earth has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day, and the hottest boreal summer on record,” said Copernicus Climate Change Service Deputy Director Samantha Burgess. This series of temperature records increases the likelihood that 2024 will be the warmest year on record.

Since records began, Europe experienced the second warmest August—after August 2022 – but with regional differences. The average temperature on the European mainland was 1.57 degrees above the average from 1991 to 2020.

While temperatures were above average in southern and eastern Europe, they were below average in the north-western parts of Ireland and the United Kingdom, Iceland, the west coast of Portugal, and southern Norway.