After a scorching summer, a new heat record falls in 2022. October was the hottest month ever recorded in Europe, says the European service Copernicus.
Average temperatures were "nearly 2°C above the 1991-2020 reference period", specifies Copernicus in a press release published on Tuesday.
The European service, which does not have comparable readings before the period 1991-2020, had already announced that the summer of 2022 had been the hottest on record.
An alarming observation at the height of the COP27 summit
“The severe consequences of climate change are now evident and we need ambitious climate action at COP27 to ensure emissions are reduced to stabilize temperatures near the 1.5 degree target. fixed by the Paris agreement,” commented Samantha Burgess, deputy program director.
Over the past 30 years, Europe has seen temperatures rise more than twice the global average, warming around +0.5°C per decade, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Copernicus program published on 2 November.
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