Paris, France:
Final month was the second-warmest September ever registered globally in an distinctive 12 months “nearly sure” to grow to be the most well liked on file, the EU local weather monitor Copernicus mentioned on Tuesday.
The Copernicus Local weather Change Service (C3S) mentioned the typical world temperature final month was second solely to September 2023.
September noticed “excessive” rainfall and damaging storms in lots of components of the world, occasions which are occurring with higher severity and frequency as world temperatures rise on account of local weather change.
Hotter air can maintain extra water vapour, and hotter oceans imply higher evaporation, leading to extra intense rainfall.
Hurricane Helene pounded the southeast United States, Hurricane Krathon slammed into Taiwan and Storm Boris introduced floods and devastation to central Europe in a month of untamed climate.
“The intense rainfall occasions of this month, one thing we’re observing increasingly more usually, have been made worse by a hotter environment, resulting in extra intense rainfall with months’ price of rain falling in just some days,” mentioned Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Local weather Change Service (C3S).
2023 was the warmest 12 months ever recorded however the months January via to September 2024 have set recent highs, mentioned Copernicus.
The monitor mentioned it was “nearly sure that 2024 goes to be the warmest 12 months on file”.
Copernicus data return to 1940 however different sources of local weather information equivalent to ice cores, tree rings and coral skeletons enable scientists to increase their conclusions utilizing proof from a lot additional up to now.
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