Europe is warming up fastest in the world

Me: N According to the Copernicus A Climate Service, 2024 was the warmest in Europe in the history of measurement. As a result of climate change, Europe is the world’s fastest warming continent, a joint report published on Tuesday, published by Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization WMO on Tuesday.

Also, the average surface temperature of seawater broke previous records, with as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius for the Mediterranean. Only in Iceland and parts of Greenland, which is a geographically, North America was cooler than usual.

Development brought exceptional weather phenomena, such as more severe storms and wider floods. Eastern and Central Europe was hit by a Boris storm in September, where the rain that had come in a few days would be in some places for three months of rainfall.

In the end of October, Valencia in Spain was hit by a devastating flood caused by a very strong rain. The neighboring country in Portugal, on the other hand, had more than 110,000 hectares of forests and terrain in the same month.

Fresh According to the report, exceptions in Europe last year demanded at least 335 people’s lives and otherwise influenced the lives of hundreds of thousands of Europeans. Financial losses increase to at least EUR 18 billion.

“At the rise of temperature, every fraction of the degree is important because it exacerbates risks to our lives, our economies and the planet. Adaptation is necessary,” said WMO Secretary General Celeste Saulo For journalists at a pre -organized press conference last week.

According to him, WMO and its partners are seeking to improve weather services and pre -warning systems to facilitate the work of decision -makers and to improve societies’ tolerance.

European A geographical difference was observed in the weather conditions last year. The sun reindeer in the eastern part of the mainland, where it was exceptionally hot and dry, while in the cloudy western Europe it rained and flooded more than usual.

Despite the difference, Western Europe was also warmer than usual than the long-term average.

“There have been such differences in Europe in the past, but usually they are not between the East and the West, but between the north and the south, when the south is hotter and drier,” Copernicus Deputy Director Samantha Burgess said at a press conference.

According to him, the difference between the north and the south is also better suited to long-term climate models that predict southern Europe to dry and heat up with climate change.

For Finland, the map of the report also shows that the amount of biscuit temperature was higher than usual last year in the whole country. This particularly concerned Southern and Eastern Finland and Lapland, which was even record-breaking in the northern part. In Western Finland, on the other hand, it rained more than usual.

Despite the heat, 2024 was among the top ten in the history of measurements that began in 1950 throughout Europe. Floods in Europe were the largest last year since 2013.

In Southeast Europe A record of the area was broken as the July heat wave continued for 13 days. In total, there were six heat episodes in the area during the summer, with only a few days under the gentle border.

Helle is defined by comparing it with the temperatures of the previous years in the area and the time, so in southern Europe is significantly higher than that of at least 25.1 degrees Celsius familiar to Finns.

With global warming, frost is becoming an increasingly rare phenomenon. Last year, more than two -thirds of Europe belonged to an area that was frosty for less than 90 days throughout the year.

According to the report, glaciers decreased throughout Europe in 2024, most in Scandinavia and Svalbard, of which the latter summer 2024 was a record 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than average.

The good news for mitigating climate change is that the share of renewable energy sources in last year’s electricity generation increased to 45 %. This is despite the fact that weather conditions, especially in cloudy western Europe, did not favor solar electricity production.