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WMO, C3S release sombre findings in joint State of the Climate in Europe 2022 report [1]
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Date: 2023-06
The key findings in the 2022 edition of the World Metrological Organization’s (WMO) State of the Climate in Europe report, produced jointly with the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S*), paint a sombre picture for Europe last year. According to the findings, Europe is the fastest warming of all the WMO regions, warming twice as much as the global average since the 1980s. What’s more, high-impact weather and climate events in 2022 resulted in over 16,000 reported fatalities, of which 99.6% were attributed to heatwaves.
In 2022, the annual average temperature in Europe was between the second and fourth highest on record, depending on the data set used, and for many countries in western and south-western Europe last year was the warmest year on record. According to the report, which was presented at the 6th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA2023) in Dublin on 19 June, the summer of 2022 was the warmest on record and Europe experienced several exceptional heatwaves over the summer months, the most severe of which occurred in mid-July, with record-breaking temperatures in many locations, including the United Kingdom where the temperature exceeded 40°C for the first time.
(a) Annual average surface air temperature anomaly (°C) over Europe for 1900–2022, using data from six data sets (for land only), and (b) for 2022 from ERA5 reanalysis, compared to the 1991–2020 reference period. Source: (a) WMO. Note: HadCRUT5, Berkeley Earth, NOAAGlobalTemp and GISTEMP are based on in situ observations. ERA-5 and JRA-55 are reanalysis data sets. (b) ERA5 reanalysis from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)/European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
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Offshore too, the effects of the warming climate were increasingly felt. In 2022, sea-surface temperatures across the North Atlantic area of the WMO Europe region were the warmest on record and large portions of the region’s seas were affected by strong or even severe and extreme marine heatwaves. In some areas, particularly the eastern Mediterranean, the Baltic and Black seas, and the southern Arctic, the rates of sea surface warming were more than three times the global average.
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