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Climate change/ World experiences second hottest May ever recorded

2025-06-11 13:34:00, Sociale CNA

Climate change/ World experiences second hottest May ever recorded

This May was the world's second warmest ever recorded, surpassed only by May 2024, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service, bringing exceptionally dry conditions to northwestern Europe.

The data shows that the average global surface air temperature was 15.79ºC last month, 0.53ºC higher than the 1991 to 2020 average.

May was about 1.4ºC above the average for the years 1850 to 1900 - the period used to determine the pre-industrial average. It breaks a warm spell in which 21 out of 22 months exceeded this 1.5ºC threshold, although EU scientists say this is unlikely to last.

"May 2025 breaks an unprecedented sequence of months above 1.5ºC above the pre-industrial period," says Carlo Buontempo, director of C3S at ECMF.

High temperatures have been accompanied by dry weather in much of the world in recent months.

In Europe, May brought drier than average conditions across much of northern and central Europe, as well as southern regions of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.

This spring has been a contrast between drier than average conditions in the north and west and wetter than average conditions across southern and northwestern Russia.

Parts of northwestern Europe saw their lowest levels of rainfall and soil moisture since at least 1979. And persistent dry conditions have led to the lowest spring river flows across Europe since records began in 1992. /CNA





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