The year 2023 was the hottest year in the history of measurements and probably also the hottest for at least tens of thousands of years, says the EU’s Copernicus service, which monitors climate change.
According to the EU’s Copernicus climate service, the limit considered critical, i.e. 1.5 degrees Celsius above the average temperatures of the end of the 19th century, has almost been exceeded. The previous record was in 2016.
Deputy Director of the Copernicus Service by Samantha Burgess according to STT, the year 2023 was also the first when every day was one degree warmer than in that pre-industrial period. According to Burgess, it is likely that it has never been this warm in at least the last 100,000 years.
High temperatures across Europe
British broadcasting company BBC looks at daily temperatures in Britain. According to the company’s report, an unusually high temperature for the time of year has been measured almost every day since July.
In Britain, last year 2023 was the second warmest in the country’s history. According to statistics, the hottest year is 2022.
Last year was in Finland According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute warmer than usual.
The average temperature of the entire country was about 3.2 degrees, which is 0.3 degrees above the long-term average, i.e. the average for the years 1991‒2020, says the Finnish Meteorological Institute.