the worrying figures for March 2024 | EUROtoday
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IHe continues the sequence of information. March 2024 was the most popular March ever recorded on the planet, introduced Copernicus, the European program which screens the planet, this Tuesday April 9. It additionally information a brand new absolute month-to-month report for world sea temperatures.
The month of March 2024 is thus a part of a sequence of ten consecutive month-to-month information, attributable to many years of greenhouse gasoline emissions, the impact of which has been accentuated since final 12 months by the El Niño phenomenon, alert Copernicus.
According to the observatory's information, the month of March 2024 had a world common temperature of 14.14°C, or 1.68°C hotter than a median of temperatures between 1850 and 1900, the pre-industrial reference interval. .
“This is the tenth consecutive warmest month on record for this month of the year,” notes Copernicus. Indeed, in line with information, the common temperature of the final twelve months is 0.70°C larger than the interval between 1991 and 2020, and 1.58°C larger than the pre-industrial interval.READ ALSO In the dry Pyrénées-Orientales, the winegrowers' blues
“The global average temperature is the highest on record, with the last 12 months exceeding pre-industrial levels by 1.58°C. To stop warming, we must quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” warns Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the local weather change division at Copernicus Climate Service.
New report for ocean temperature
As for water, the common sea floor temperature in March 2024 was 21.07°C, in line with Copernicus, setting a brand new all-time report. The earlier one was 21.06°C in February. “It’s incredibly unusual,” says Samantha Burgess.
According to the report, this overheating threatens marine life and causes extra humidity within the ambiance, which suggests extra unstable climate circumstances, equivalent to excessive winds and torrential rains.
In phrases of hydrology, March 2024 noticed wetter than common climate throughout most of Western Europe, with storms bringing heavy rainfall to the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. The remainder of Europe was however drier than common, notes Copernicus.
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