“With the increase in global temperatures, heat waves and hot spells are becoming more frequent and intense, and this is not limited to the summer months,” said Freja Vamborg, scientist from the Copernicus Climate Change Monitoring Service, noting that “Winters are getting warmer due to rising global temperatures.”
According to Vamborg, “warming is more pronounced in winter” in northern Europe and “more marked in summer” in southern Europe.
The Copernicus Climate Change Monitoring Service is one of six thematic information services of the European Union’s Earth observation programme, Copernicus.
According to the agency, which released climate data for 2022 this Tuesday, last year was the second warmest year in Europe after 2020, with the entire continent, excluding Iceland, recording temperatures above average for the period. .
The summer of 2022 was the hottest after 2021 and the winter, when temperatures were about 1ºC above average, was one of the 10 hottest.
In Europe, “protracted and intense” heat waves hit northern and western regions.
After summer heatwaves combined with historic droughts, snow remains scarce on ski slopes, particularly in the Alps and Pyrenees, and several regions, including Central Europe, had temperatures above 20ºC in the New Year 2023.
Source: DN
