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In particular, the average global sea surface temperature (SST) reached its highest value for a month in February 2024 – averaged over the extrapolar global ocean – at 21.06 degrees Celsius.
This exceeded the previous record from August 2023 of 20.98 degrees.
- Also read: Results: Warmest February since measurements began [OÖNplus]
The average daily measured SST also reached a new absolute high of 21.09 degrees at the end of the previous month. Last February also joins the long list of records of the past few months in terms of other measurement data.
“Not really surprising”
“As remarkable as this may seem, it is not really surprising, as the continued warming of the climate system inevitably leads to new temperature extremes. The climate is responding to the current concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if we fail to stabilize them, “We will inevitably be confronted with new global temperature records and their consequences,” warned Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
- On the subject: 2023 will be the warmest year since records began
Copernicus also reported the warmest February on record. The air temperature on the earth’s surface averaged 13.54 degrees Celsius, the service said on Thursday. That is 0.81 degrees more than the average for the reference period from 1991 to 2020 and 0.12 degrees more than in the warmest February recorded so far in 2016.
One record follows another
The data used by Copernicus goes back to 1950, but some earlier data is also available. This is the ninth month in a row that has been the warmest compared to the respective months of the previous year. Copernicus had already announced in January that global warming was now for the first time over a period of twelve months (February 2023 to January 2024) on average over 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era. However, that does not mean that the Paris 1.5 degree target has been missed, as longer-term average values are being looked at.
- Also read: Sternstein ends the season early: “There’s nothing you can do about the weather” [OÖNplus]
The European Union’s climate change service Copernicus regularly publishes data on surface temperatures, sea ice cover and precipitation. The findings are based on computer-generated analyzes that incorporate billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.
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