According to European climate agency Copernicus, summer 2024 was the hottest on record, increasing the likelihood that this year would top all previous records for warmth. This information was released on Friday, reports Breaking News.
According to experts, the records were only broken last year because to a brief boost from an El Nino that raised temperatures and brought on extreme weather.
According to Copernicus, the average temperature of the northern meteorological summer (June, July, and August) was 16.8C, reports Breaking News.
2023 will see a 0.03C increase over the previous record.
Copernicus records date back to 1940, but American, British, and Japanese records, which go back to the middle of the 19th century, indicate that the past ten years have been the warmest since systematic measurements began in the 19th century and, in the opinion of some experts, perhaps in around 120,000 years.
At 16.8C, the previous two Augusts were tied for the hottest on record worldwide. According to Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo, July was the warmest month in over a year, but this summer was the hottest overall since June 2024 was so much hotter than June 2023, reports Breaking News.
For much of the world this summer, the dew point—one of several methods to gauge air humidity—was most likely at or close to record high, according to Mr. Buontempo.
“In order for 2024 not to become the warmest on record, we need to see very significant landscape cooling for the remaining few months, which doesn’t look likely at this stage,” he said, reports Breaking News.
Because August 2023 was so much hotter than usual, Mr. Buontempo and a few other climate scientists were unsure until this month whether 2024 would top the record for the warmest year. However, Mr. Buontempo is “pretty certain” that this year will end up being the warmest on record after August 2024 equalled 2023.
The last four months of the year may no longer be record-setters like much of the previous year and a half due to a predicted La Nina, a transient natural cooling of regions of the central Pacific, but Mr. Buontempo said it is not likely chilly enough to prevent 2024 from surpassing the yearly mark, reports Breaking News.
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