According to the European service, “a heat wave has resulted in record daily temperatures for Austria, Switzerland and France”, after a summer which had already been the warmest ever recorded.
Le Monde with AFP
The month of October 2022 has been the warmest ever recorded in Europe, announced Tuesday, November 8, the European climate surveillance service Copernicus . The average temperatures were “nearly 2 ° C above the reference period 1991-2020”, specifies the body in a press release . The organization had already announced in September that summer 2022 had been the warmest ever recorded , with temperatures greater than normal of 1.34 ° C.
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“The serious consequences of climate change are obvious today and we need an ambitious climate action during COP27 to guarantee the reduction of emissions in order to stabilize temperatures at a level close to the lens of 1 , 5 ° C fixed by the Paris Agreement, “commented Samantha Burgess, assistant director of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
According to European service, “a heat wave has resulted in record daily temperatures in Western Europe and a record month for Austria, Switzerland and France, as well as for a large part of Italy and Spain “.
Europe, a continent where warming is the fastest
The European continent is the one that warms the fastest. In the past thirty years, an increase in temperatures more than twice the planetary average has been recorded, with a warming of about + 0.5 ° C per decade, according to a report of the world meteorological organization (OMM) and C3S published on November 2. In October, in certain parts of the continent, this abnormal heat was added, as in the summer, to a deficit of rains. “The weather was drier than the average on most of southern and Caucasus Europe,” said Copernicus. On the other hand, “in the northwest of the Iberian peninsula, regions of France and Germany, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in northwest of Scandinavia, on a large part of Europe ‘East and in the center of Turkey, the weather was more humid than the average “.
In the rest of the world, “Canada has experienced record heat, and much warmer temperatures than the average have also been observed in Greenland and Siberia”. On the contrary, “the coldest temperatures compared to the average have been recorded in Australia, in the extreme east of Russia and in certain parts of Western Antarctic”.
Since the end of the 19th e century, the earth has warmed up from almost 1.2 ° C, about half of this increase having occurred over the past thirty years. The year 2022, marked by cascade climatic disasters, should classify itself as the fifth or sixth warm year, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which published its Provisional annual report on the state of the climate .