The United Kingdom recorded its hottest-ever year in 2022, with an average temperature of 10.03 degrees Celsius.
The global average air surface temperature in 2023 was 14.98C - beating the previous record set in 2016 by a "large margin" of 0.17C. Copernicus found 2023 was on average 1.48C warmer than levels before industrial times, when humans began burning fossil fuels at scale. Carlo Buontempo, dire...
This graph of global yearly temperature averages from the year 1880 through 2024, shows that 2024 is the hottest in the entire 145-year record. Data from four different climate organizations — NASA, NOAA, Berkeley Earth and the Hadle...
June's average mean temperature, calculated from the average daytime and nighttime temperature from across the UK, of 15.8C beats the previous record of 14.9C (set in both 1940 and 1976) by 0.9C. It wasthe hottest June sincerecords began in 1884. The Met Office's Mark M...
on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates ...
The UK is not the only country to have broken its temperature records this summer, either. Belgium, Germany and Holland have all experienced all-time highs over recent weeks, while extremely high temperatures were recorded in a wide number of countries across Central and Western Europe l...
The highest temperature of the year so far was 19.9C (68F), recorded at the end of January at Achfary in northwest Scotland. Image:The River Cam in Cambridge. File pic: PA Meanwhile a mixed picture is set for today - with the forecaster earlier updating its warnings to say stron...
Monday's record temperature comes as the month of June was confirmed as the hottest June in the global record. Average temperatures across the planet were 1.46C above the average in the period between 1850 and 1900. The UK also recorded its hottest June while the impact of high temperatures ...
Europe, revealing that the maximum temperature on the hottest days is rising twice as fast as the maximum temperature on average summer days. These findings emphasize the necessity for immediate action from policymakers to adjust crucial infrastructure in response to the consequences of climate change...
“The global average temperature between now and 2023 is predicted to remain high, potentially making the decade from 2014 the warmest in more than 150 years of records.” Climate is what people can reasonably bank on; weather is what they get. The forecast is significant because it is eviden...