On the 8th local time, the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union's climate monitoring agency, said that the world experienced the warmest January since records began in 1950. Since June last year, the global average temperature has set a new record for the highest temperature in the same period of the previous year for eight consecutive months.
The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on the 8th that with the end of the world's hottest year in 2023, the average temperature in January this year hit a record high for the same period. In Spain, there are about 400 weather stations with maximum temperatures of 20 degrees Celsius or more measured in January, which accounts for nearly half of the total number of weather stations in Spain. There are even local highs close to 30 degrees Celsius, and such temperatures usually occur in June.
Abnormally high temperatures and the El Niño phenomenon also caused many countries in the southern hemisphere to experience frequent disasters such as drought and forest fires in January this year. In Argentina, large areas of crops failed due to drought that left agriculture with water shortages; The effects of forest fires in central Chile continue to this day.
According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, the average temperature between February 2023 and January 2024 is 152 degrees Celsius; Since June last year, the global average temperature has set a record for the same period in history for eight consecutive months. Under the influence of climate change and increased human activities, this abnormally high temperature phenomenon will continue.
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Editor: Zhang Yafang.