Last March was the second hottest ever recorded on planet Earth, which led the melting in Antarctica to be close to historical records, the European Union’s climate monitoring agency advances this Thursday.
“The month was the second hottest in the world,” tied with the months of March 2017, 2019 and 2020, revealed the Copernicus Climate Change Service, quoted by AFP. The hottest march on record was in 2016.
This report is based on computer-generated analysis using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world, and concluded that temperatures were above average in southern and central Europe and below average. average in most of northern Europe. By contrast, it was much colder than usual in much of North Africa, southwestern Russia, Asia, northeastern North America, and South America, including Argentina, Australia, and coastal Antarctica.
According to Copernicus, the extent of Antarctic sea ice was the second lowest during the month of March, according to satellite records in the last 45 years. It is 28% below the average and also reached an average of 3.2 million square kilometers, that is, 1.2 million square kilometers below the average.
Meanwhile, in the north, Arctic sea ice extent was 4% below average and the fourth lowest in March, although concentrations were above average in the Greenland Sea. As temperatures rise around the world due to human-caused climate change, data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that the past eight years have been the warmest on record.
Source: TSF
