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Geneva (dpa) - According to preliminary analyzes by the World Weather Organization (WMO), 2020 is likely to be one of the three warmest since temperature records began in the mid-19th century.
For Europe, the average temperature in the first ten months was even higher than ever before.
The organization reported on Wednesday in its preliminary report on the state of the climate in 2020. It is already clear that the years since 2015 are the six warmest since measurements began.
The current forecasts relate to measurements from January to October.
In these months the global average temperature was 1.11 to 1.23 degrees Celsius above the average for the years 1850 to 1900. The measurement results north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia were particularly drastic: the temperature there was more than five degrees above from January to October the average from 1981 to 2010.
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