According to measurements by the US climate protection agency NOAA, last month was the warmest September worldwide since records began in the year 1880. The average temperature over land and ocean areas is around 0, 97 ° C above the average of the 20. Century of 15 ° C . Thus, September 2020 exceeded the same months of the years 2015 and 2015, the previous record holders to 0, 02 ° C.

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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it was particularly warm in parts of the North Pacific, western parts of Canada and the USA, North Atlantic, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Antarctica; temperature deviations of + 1.5 ° C were found there.

Warm Europe Europe experienced with a temperature deviation of + 2, 33 ° C its warmest September; this exceeded the second warmest September in the years 2015, 2017 and 2018 by 0, 22 ° C. The five warmest September in Europe have occurred since 2006. Meanwhile, South America, Asia, and Oceania had the second warmest September on regional records began in the year 1910.

A week ago, the European climate change service Copernicus announced that, according to its calculations, last month was the warmest September worldwide since the beginning his records since 1910.

NOAA: Warmest September since measurements began (11 Pictures) (Image : NOAA) In the nine months of this year so far, the global land and ocean surface temperature was 1, 02 ° C above average and was the second highest this time in 141 – year record. With a probability of 65 percent, 2020 the warmest year