Climatologists confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year on record, but this year could be even hotter.
What is known about the abnormal increase in air temperature on the planet
According to scientists, Earth's global average air temperature during the past year was 14.98 degrees Celsius.
This exceeded the figures recorded in 2016 when the average temperature reached 14.81 degrees.
According to the head of the Climate Change Service, Carlo Buontempo, such a steady increase in global temperature indicators is evidence of how much we have affected climate change compared to how it has been throughout human development.
At the same time, scientists believe that this year may break temperature records.
Climatologists emphasize that large-scale emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere contributed to the increase in global temperature.
In addition, the El Niño cycle began last year, during which the heat of oceanic currents, especially of the central-eastern equatorial part of the Pacific Ocean, is released into the atmosphere.
We expect a strong El Niño in the Pacific Ocean to affect global temperatures through 2024. For this reason, we predict that 2024 will be another record year, with the possibility of temporarily exceeding 1.5C for the first time, climatologist Nick Dunstone noted.
What is known about temperature records in Ukraine and the consequences of abnormal climate changes
July 2023 was the hottest month on record. Scientists also believe that it may be the warmest on the planet in the last 120,000 years.
The average air temperature this summer in Kyiv was 21.6 degrees Celsius, which was 1.2 degrees above the climatic norm and secured the sixth position among the warmest in the capital since 1881. During the summer, 13 temperature records were set, one in June and the rest in August.
The average annual temperature in Kyiv in 2022 was 9.7 degrees Celsius, 0.7 degrees higher than the climatic norm. It took the seventh place in the ranking of the warmest since 1881.
At the end of 2023, we will remember that abnormally warm weather was established in Ukraine, which corresponds to the climatic norm of March, and several temperature records were updated.
According to the forecast of the Ukrhydrometeorological Center, in January 2024, the average monthly temperature is predicted to be within 0-4 degrees of frost in Zakarpattia, in the Crimea, Odesa and Kherson regions, 0-2 degrees of heat. This is 1.5-2.0 degrees above normal.
