The last seven years have turned out the warmest in the history of meteorological observations, as reported by Latvia’s State Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre with reference to European Union’s Earth Observation programme Copernicus.
2021 is fifth on the list of the warmest years. The first five months were relatively cooler, but from June to October the global average air temperature was one of the highest in the history of meteorological observations.
The average global air temperature in 2021 was 0.3 degrees higher than the average in 1991-2020, as well as 1.1 and 1.2 degrees higher than it was in the pre-industrial period 1850-1900.
In 2021 Europe experienced the hottest summer in history.
On multiple occasions Europe also experienced extreme weather, such as the heat waves in the Mediterranean region and strong floods in Central Europe.
It is mentioned that the concentration of green house gas in 2021 continued growing, which is backed by provisional analysis of satellite measurements. New records of carbon dioxide and methane concentrations were observed as well.
2021 was warmer than normal for Latvia as well. The average air temperature that year was 7 C, which is 0.2 degrees above the norm. This makes 2021 the ninth year warmer than the norm.
Similarly to Europe, the summer of 2021 was the hottest in the history of meteorological observations. Winter was also the coldest in the last eight years.
Summer 2021 – the hottest in Europe’s history of meteorological observations
