As global warming worsens, the European Union’s climate change monitoring office announced that the summer of 2024 was the Hottest on Record. It was also the warmest in Europe, with temperatures 1.54 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 long-term average, breaking the previous record set in 2022. August was also the 13th month in 14 months during which the worldwide average temperature rose above 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels. Despite the UK having its coolest summer since 2015, much of Europe had a warmer-than-average summer.

So far summer 2024 was the hottest on record; the worldwide average temperature has been 0.7 degrees Celsius over the 1991-2020 average, the highest on record.

According to the research, greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are the primary reason for climate change. Extreme weather will only intensify unless countries immediately reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

El Niño, a natural climatic phenomenon, contributed to the hottest summer on record. Also, heat reports in 2023 and 2024 showed human activity as the primary source of global temperature rise. Earlier this year, temperatures reached record highs due to both human-caused climate change and the El Niño natural weather phenomenon, which warms surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Copernicus reported below-average temperatures in the equatorial Pacific last month, indicating a change to La Niña, El Niño’s more excellent counterpart.

The service said that August temperatures were around 1.51 degrees Celsius higher than the preindustrial level of 1850. The global-global average air temperature surpassed preindustrial levels by that amount.

“This has never happened in the entire ERA5 dataset, making it increasingly likely that 2024 is going to be the warmest year on record,” according to a statement from the agency.

Southern and Eastern Europe experienced above-average temperatures throughout the month. In August, temperatures were below average in the northwest of Ireland, Britain, and Iceland, as well as in Portugal’s west coast and southern Norway.

On a worldwide scale, eastern Antarctica, Texas, Mexico, Canada, northeast Africa, Iran, China, Japan, and Australia recorded above-average monthly temperatures.

Parts of far eastern Russia and Alaska, the eastern United States, southern South America, and Pakistan saw below-average monthly temperatures.

Throughout August, Arctic sea ice measures continued to fall. Ice measures were 17% below average, the fourth lowest on record since satellite monitoring began, and lower than average in the prior three years.

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