Copernicus, 2020 was the hottest year for Europe

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08 January 20212021

, exceeding 2019 by 0.4 degrees. The data was recorded by Copernicus, the European Union 's Earth satellite monitoring service.

The same Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reports that

as the hottest year ever, the sixth in a series of exceptionally hot years that began in 2015, with the 2011-2020 decade being the hottest ever recorded.

Data that would demonstrate, due to the climate emergency in progress, a record on temperatures that follow one another with an increasingly rapid frequency. 

Unlike 2020, 2016 was marked by a strong episode known as

, a natural oceanic phenomenon that occurs in a statistically variable period between 2 and 7 years that causes a strong warming of the waters of the Central-Southern and Eastern Pacific Ocean in the months between December and January.

Having made the necessary clarification

: "2020 is characterized by its exceptional heat and this is yet another reminder of the urgency to ambitiously reduce emissions to prevent adverse climatic impacts in the future. ".

The World Meteorological Organization (Omm), which is expected to publish consolidated data shortly combining the numbers of different official agencies, has already anticipated in late December that

.