Record temperatures: the month just ended was the fifth warmest March globally, as confirmed by the new Copernicus Climate Change Service bulletin. The situation in Antarctica is increasingly alarming, where the extent of sea ice was 26% below the average of the last 30 years.
Heat waves are more and more frequent, even in those months when we are used to still wearing scarves and warm jackets. Globally, the month of March just ended was the fifth warmest in the last thirty years. This is confirmed by the monitoring data of Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU-funded service that regularly publishes monthly climate bulletins.
The global average temperature for March 2022 was about 0.4ºC above the 1991-2020 average, while for Europe last March was the third coldest in the last 10 years.
There has been a contrast in temperature anomalies in Europe, with warmer-than-average conditions in the north and colder-than-average conditions in the south. - reads the bulletin - The cold conditions have extended to North Africa and Russia.
Worrying news comes from the Arctic and Antarctic regions, where conditions of anomalous heat have been recorded. In particular, the Arctic experienced the fourth warmest March ever recorded; instead in Antarctica the daily records of maximum temperature have been broken.
The situation of the Arctic glaciers is increasingly dramatic
Naturally, the record heat also had a deleterious impact on the glaciers of the North Pole and the South Pole. The scenario recorded in Antarctica is of great concern, where the extent of sea ice for the month of March was 26% less than the average 1991-2020, ranking second among the lowest in the 44 years of monitoring.
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The areas most affected by the phenomenon were those of the Ross, Amundsen and northern Weddell seas. On the other hand, as regards the Arctic, the extent of sea ice was 3% below the 1991-2020 average.
Melting glaciers are galloping at an ever faster rate. Only a few days ago satellites recorded the collapse of the Conger Antarctic ice shelf (of the same size as Rome) in the ocean. The collapse of the glacier is just one of the most dramatic events affecting Antarctica in recent decades. And it is one of the many signals that our planet sends us asking us to reverse the course of global warming as soon as possible. Before it's really too late.
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Source: Copernicus ECMWF
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