EU report: this year was the hottest summer in Europe so far

According to the report of the Copernicus Climate Change Monitoring Service (C3S), Europe has never been warmer than this year between June and August (Photo: Pixabay)

According to the report of the Copernicus Climate Change Monitoring Service (C3S), Europe has never been warmer than this year between June and August. According to the data, August was the hottest month on the continent, beating the previous record set in August 2021 by 0.4 degrees Celsius. Temperatures in August 2022 across most of Europe were 1.72 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average. Above-average air temperatures close to the surface in Europe occurred mostly in the western region of the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern part of the continent, they wrote. It was also announced that globally, August 2022 was also the warmest month on record. The average temperature in August was 0.3 degrees higher in the world than the monthly average measured between 1991-2020.

MTI