2024 will officially be the hottest year on record, climatologists report. The average global temperature has exceeded the critical threshold of +1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial level, which indicates the increasing impact of climate change on the planet.
According to European Union scientists, 2024 will be the hottest year on record. Extremely high temperatures are expected to persist in the first months of 2025. This is reported by Reuters.
The EU's climate change agency Copernicus said 2024 is likely to be the hottest year on record and the first year in which the global average temperature will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial period of 1850-1900.
The previous hottest year on record was 2023.
We will remind you that this year, extreme weather swept across the world: a severe drought hit Italy and South America, deadly floods in Nepal, Sudan and Europe, heat waves in Mexico, Mali and Saudi Arabia, which claimed thousands of lives, and devastating cyclones in the USA and the Philippines.
Scientists predict that 2025 could be slightly cooler than the current year if La Niña develops.
"But this does not mean that the temperatures will be "safe". We will still face high temperatures leading to dangerous heat waves, droughts, forest fires and tropical cyclones," said Friederike Otto, a senior lecturer at Imperial College London.
Abnormal heat in Ukraine
This year, the meteorological summer in Ukraine turned out to be particularly long - it began in mid-May and lasted until the first decade of October. According to Vira Balabukh, head of the Department of Applied Meteorology and Climatology of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, such long and hot summers will soon become the norm for our country.
The expert notes that the duration of the hot season will increase: summer will start earlier and end later.
She calls the strengthening of the greenhouse effect, which leads to a general increase in temperature on the planet, the main reason for such changes.
Another factor she called the increase in solar activity, which reached its peak in October, which also affected the increase in air temperature.
