Europe experienced the hottest October on record on the continent last month, the European climate change service Copernicus announced on Tuesday, which has already recorded a record summer.
Average temperatures were “almost 2°C above the 1991-2020 reference period,” Copernicus said in a note.
This service, which does not have comparable data prior to the period 1991-2020, has already announced that the European summer of 2022 was the hottest on record, with temperatures 1.34ºC above normal.
“The severe consequences of climate change are now manifest and we need ambitious climate action during COP27 to secure emission reductions to stabilize temperatures at a level close to the 1.5°C target set by the Paris Agreement,” said Samantha Burgess. , deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
According to the European service, “a heat wave caused record daily temperatures in Western Europe and a record October in Austria, Switzerland and France, as well as in much of Italy and Spain”.
The European continent is the one with the fastest warming on the entire planet.
Over the past 30 years, Europe has seen temperatures rise more than twice the global average, with an increase of half a degree every decade, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization and C3S published Nov.
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