Europe records warmest March on record - Climate change raised temperatures, caused floods and droughts
Europe experienced its warmest March on record as climate change continues to push temperatures to unprecedented levels, European Union scientists announced.
Globally, last month was the planet's second warmest March on record, surpassed only by March 2024, the EU's Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin.
March continued with an unusually hot spell, with 20 of the last 21 months seeing an average global temperature more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The data showed that last year was the planet's hottest on record.
The average global temperature in March was 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than in pre-industrial times. According to climate scientists, the main drivers of climate change are greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
A strategic manager at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which runs the C3S service, noted that Europe also experienced extremes, both in heavy rain and drought.
Last month, the old continent recorded "many areas experiencing their driest March on record and others the wettest March recorded in at least the last 47 years," she said.
Climate change is making some regions drier and is fueling heat waves that can make droughts more severe, increasing evaporation rates, drying out soil and vegetation.
But global warming also exacerbates heavy rainfall that can cause flooding. That's because warmer air holds more moisture, so storm clouds are "heavier" before they finally break up.
C3S temperature data goes back to 1940 and is correlated with global data going back to 1850.
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