Spanish October heat – the world is heading for a record year – Chitsvenskan

Summer heat in late September is not unusual in Europe. But this year many countries on the continent have been hotter than usual.

The average temperature in Denmark was 16.3 degrees, 2.7 degrees warmer than normal for the month and 0.1 degrees above the old records of 1999, 2006 and 2016. Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). The average temperature of September was higher than that of July and August and 0.1 degree lower than that of June.

“Both September and the summer were quite remarkable. September was hotter than July and August and we almost never experienced June, which ended up being the warmest summer month,” writes DMI’s climatologist Michael Scharling.

Also Finland Made a hit list The average temperature in September is 12.2 degrees. This also happened in many European countries such as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Great Britain and Switzerland.

In France, a heatwave warning was issued for the first time in September. When the department of Vienne recorded 38.8 degrees, it was the highest temperature recorded in the country in September.

Germany’s average temperature of 17.2 degrees for the period 1961-1990 was almost 4 degrees higher than the average September temperature and “further proof that we are in the midst of climate change,” said the head of weather agency DWD.

Parts of Europe, including the UK, which is believed to be facing a heatwave, are expected to experience unusually high temperatures in October. In Spain, a new record for October was set at Montoro near Córdoba on Sunday with 38.2 degrees. Meteorological agency Emet has warned that the record heat will last up to ten days.

Record citations for September have also been made outside of Europe, including in Japan, where the month was the warmest since records began 125 years ago.

Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service, found June, July and August to be the hottest summers globally, with average temperatures of 16.77 degrees Celsius.

Copernicus predicts that 2023 will be the hottest year ever recorded on Earth. According to scientists, climate change caused by human burning of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas is raising global temperatures. The world is now 1.1 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times.