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According to the EU’s Copernicus Earth Observation Program, last month was the second warmest September ever recorded worldwide.
Only in September 2023 was the global average temperature even higher, the Copernicus Climate Service announced on Tuesday. Since records began, 2024 is increasingly likely to be the world’s warmest year.
New record highs reached
Copernicus, which uses billions of measurements from satellites, ships, airplanes, and weather stations for its calculations, explained that new record highs have already been reached from January to September 2024. As a result, it is “almost certain that 2024 will be the warmest year since weather records began”.
At the same time, Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Service, said that in September 2024, some parts of the world received as much rain in just a few days as they usually do in several months.
Extreme rainfall and destructive storms occur in many regions of the world. Climate change is causing these to occur with increasing severity and frequency. This is because global warming not only leads to rising temperatures: but warmer oceans allow more water to evaporate, and warmer air can absorb more of it. This favors heavier downpours and storms.
- source: k.at/picture: Image by Susi Anderl from Pixabay
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