November 2020 was the hottest in Europe on record. This is the conclusion reached by specialists from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), who analyzed the temperature of the air and the Earth’s surface. A new temperature record reported in a Phys press release .org.
Last November was 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer than the average for the period from 1981 to 2010, and also surpassed the previous record by 0.1 degrees. For Europe, autumn was 1.9 degrees warmer than average and 0.4 degrees warmer than autumn 2006, which was considered the hottest. The data recorded are consistent with a long-term warming trend, scientists say.
C3S said that after the last month it will become clear whether the whole of 2020 will be as warm as 2016. So far, global temperatures have increased by one degree, but this has already caused an increase in natural disasters across the planet, including wildfires and tropical storms. In addition, the disappearance of sea ice in the Kara Sea was recorded, as well as a decrease in the area of ice cover throughout the Arctic, which heats up faster than other regions of the Earth.