the World has – again – set a new heat record. The global average temperature in the last month was the highest, the european UNION’s Copernicus program has measured in the month of may in almost 40 years.
It notifies scientists on Friday.
The average surface temperature globally was 0,63 degrees higher than the average for may over the period 1981-2010. The temperature is the highest since measurements began in 1981.
If one looks only at the European, was may overall a bit cooler than normal. The south-western and north-eastern Europe was warmer than the previous averages, while the north and the east was cooler.
But forårsperioden from march to may was 0.7 degrees above the normal average temperature in Europe.
last month, announced the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), to higher temperatures in the sea is expected to raise the temperature of the country to rise above the average.
Particularly in Alaska, Antarctica and parts of Siberia it was unusually warm.
Here was the average temperature up to 10 degrees higher than normal, shows the figures from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
