Heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones caused misery and mayhem, upending everyday life for millions and inflicting many billions of dollars in economic losses, according to the WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 report. “Sirens are blaring across all major indicators… Some records aren’t just chart-topping, they’re chart-busting. And changes are…
Marked by record breaking land and ocean temperatures, the decade between 2011-2020 saw continued rising concentrations of greenhouse gasses that “turbo charged” dramatic glacier loss and sea-level rise, according to a new report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The report comes as the latest annual UN climate conference, COP28, reaches its midway point…
That’s the message from UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which said on Wednesday that for the calendar year to date, the global mean temperature is the highest ever recorded, 1.43 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and sea ice in the Antarctic remains at record low levels. WMO expects the warming El Niño climate pattern to last…
Average surface temperature reached 16.38°C, or 0.5°C above the previous record in September 2020. Last month was roughly 1.75°C warmer compared to the pre-industrial period. It was also 0.93°C warmer than the 1991-2020 baseline which is used as a practical tool for climate sensitive sectors like agriculture. The heat is on WMO said this continues…
(Photo: Reuters) Amsterdam: The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Service has declared the summer of 2023 to be the hottest ever globally. According to the Copernicus Service, global summer temperatures were 0.66 degrees Celsius warmer, bringing the global average temperature to 16.77 degrees Celsius. This temperature is the highest since records began in 1940. Copernicus also…
NASA experts warned of extreme heat; Photo: File Washington: Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s top climatologist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has warned that July 2023 is set to be the hottest month of the century. According to the world news agency, NASA meteorologist Gavin Schmidt says that the continuous heat wave is covering large…
This week, the average temperature of the earth has been seen as the highest for three days in a row. Photo: File Washington: The planet has recorded the average hottest day in the month of July. It should be noted that this is not the record of a single place, but the average temperature of…
File photo Monday was the warmest day across the globe, and more heat records are likely to be broken this year. According to the US National Center for Climate Change, Monday was the hottest day on record globally, with the average global temperature reaching 17.01 degrees Celsius. According to the US National Center for Climate…
Image courtesy of RTE Ireland. Britain recorded its hottest June in 140 years this year. According to the British Meteorological Department from London, the month of June this year was the hottest month in 140 years. The British Meteorological Department added that the average temperature in June last month was 15.8 degrees. The average temperature…
Image courtesy: Reuters, NDTV. The hottest day of June was recorded today in Beijing, the capital of China. The temperature in Beijing exceeded 41 degrees Celsius today. According to the Chinese Meteorological Department, the previous record temperature in Beijing was 40.6 degrees Celsius on June 10, 1961. According to Chinese media, an orange alert for…
