Europe experiences warmest year on record in 2020

 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2021/europe-experiences-warmest-year-on-record-in-2020

Author: Grahame Madge
16:00 (UTC+1) on Wed 25 Aug 2021
 

The latest edition in an annual series of global climate reports shows that Europe experienced its warmest year in 2020 by a considerable amount.

The report showed that 2020 in Europe was 1.9 °C [3.4F] above the long-term average of 1981-2010. 

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2020 was the seventh year in succession where the Arctic recorded an annual average temperature more than 1.0 °C  [1.8F] above the average for 1981-2010. 

[And of course the average for 1981-2010 was above pre-industrial temperature.]

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