Copernicus:"October 2023 the hottest ever globally”

0.85 C C above the October average of the period between 199 and 2020

ROME – October 2023 was the warmest on record globally, with an average surface air temperature of 15.30 C C, 0.85.C above the October average of the period between 199 and 2020 and 0.40 C C above the previous warmest October, that of the year 2019.Copernicus, the planet's satellite and ground-based observation system, makes this known.The global temperature for the month of October 2023 was the second highest of all months in the ERA dataset5, after the month of September 2023."The month of October 2023 experienced exceptional temperature anomalies, beating the previous four months in which global temperature records had already been widely exceeded,” comments Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).“We can say almost with certainty that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, currently about 1.43 CThe sense of urgency for ambitious climate action ahead of COP28 has never been higher,” Burgess adds.The month as a whole was about 1.7 C C warmer than the October average of the period between 1850 and 1900, the pre-industrial reference period.

From January to October the global average temperature for 2023 is the highest on record, 1.43 C C above the pre-industrial average of the period between 1850 and 1900 and 0.10 C C higher than the equivalent period of the hottest calendar year (2016).In Europe, October 2023 was the fourth warmest October on record, with an increase of 1.30 C C compared to the average for the period between 1991 and 2020 The average sea surface temperature on 60 S S-60 NEl NioO conditions continued to develop in the Equatorial Pacific, although anomalies remain lower than those reached at this time of year during the development of the events of the year 1997 and 2015.