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Brussels, February 9.- The first month of 2024 was the warmest January since records exist in the world, reported the Copernicus Climate Change Service, of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
According to the monthly climate bulletin published this Thursday, last month an average surface air temperature of 13.14° C (degrees Celsius) was reported, 0.70° C above the 1991-2020 average for that calendar. and 0.12° C higher than the temperature of January 2020, which had been the warmest January to date.
He highlighted that for the eighth consecutive month the monthly record is the warmest of the entire series of the corresponding month.
The global temperature anomaly in January 2024 was lower than those of the last six months of 2023, but higher than any anomaly recorded before July of that year, the note added.
January as a whole was 1.66° C warmer than the estimated average for that month from 1850-1900, the pre-industrial reference period.
According to experts, the global average temperature of the last 12 months (February 2023 – January 2024) is the highest since records began, standing 0.64° C above the 1991-2020 average and 1.52° C above the pre-industrial average.
European temperatures varied in January 2024 from levels well below the 1991-2020 average in the Nordic countries to levels well above average in the extreme south of the continent.
Outside Europe, temperatures were well above average in eastern Canada, northwest Africa, the Middle East and central Asia, and below average in western Canada, the central United States and most of Eastern Siberia.
Copernicus commented that El Niño began to weaken in the equatorial Pacific, although sea air temperatures generally remained at an unusually high level.
Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said that 2024 begins with another record month: not only is it the warmest January on record, but we have also just experienced a 12-month period with a temperature of more 1.5° C above the pre-industrial reference period.
The only way to slow global temperature rise is to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Burgess said. (PL) (Photo: Taken from the Internet)
