For the tenth time in a row, a month was the warmest compared to the respective months of the previous year. March was also warmer globally than any month since records began, according to data from the EU climate change agency Copernicus.
“March 2024 continues the string of climate records being broken for both air and sea surface temperatures, with the tenth consecutive record month,” said Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of Copernicus.
So far, March 2016 topped the rankings
Earth’s surface air temperature averaged 14.14 degrees in March, the agency said Tuesday. That is 0.73 degrees more than the average over the reference period from 1991 to 2020 and 0.10 degrees more than in the warmest March so far in 2016.
Compared to the period 1850 to 1900, the pre-industrial reference period, the month was 1.68 degrees warmer, the report said. The global average temperature of the past twelve months (April 2023 to March 2024) is the highest ever recorded and is 1.58 degrees above the pre-industrial average. However, this does not mean that the Paris target of 1.5 degrees has not been achieved, because longer-term average values are taken into account.
Billions of collected data
The European Union’s climate change agency, Copernicus, regularly publishes data on surface temperatures, sea ice cover and precipitation. The findings are based on computer-generated analyzes that incorporate billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world. The data used goes back to 1950, but earlier data is also available.
Source: Krone
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