Last year ties 2016 as hottest: report
SOMBER MILESTONES: Warming in the arctic was nearly 7°C above mid-19th-century levels, as wildfires in Siberia released a quarter-billion tonnes of carbon, the report said
AFP, PARIS
Last year has tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said yesterday, keeping Earth on a global warming fast track that could devastate large swathes of humanity.
The six years since 2015 are the six warmest ever registered, as are 20 of the last 21, evidence of a persistent and deepening trend, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported.
Last year’s record high a soaring 1.25°C above preindustrial levels was all the more alarming because it came without the help of a periodic natural weather event known as El Nino, which added up to two-tenths of a degree to the 2016 average, according to data from NASA and the UK Met Office.
Scientists Warn of an Imminent Stratospheric Warming Event Around The North Pole
6 JANUARY 2021
Every winter in the Northern Hemisphere, a cold wind circles the North Pole like water around a drain. It s an annual weather pattern meteorologists keep an anxious eye on – any significant changes could suggest Europe is in for a serious cold snap. Right now, that wind is ripping in two.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, and Bath have come up with a new way to predict the knock-on effects of various changes to this major air current high up in the stratosphere, 10 to 50 kilometres (6 to 30 miles) overhead.
By Muireann Duffy
Two separate weather warnings for snow and low temperatures have been issued for the entire country.
The first status yellow warning for all counties in the Republic will begin at 8pm this evening, warning of low temperatures and ice across the county.
Temperatures of -3 and -4 degrees are expected in some parts overnight, with the warning remaining in place until 10am on Thursday.
A second yellow warning has also been issued by Met Éireann, covering the 26 counties as snow and ice is expected in the coming hours.
Status Yellow – Low Temperature/Ice warning for Ireland
Very cold with minima widely falling to -3 or -4 degrees Celsius.
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Heavy snow fell in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent overnight and across Scotland and more is expected across the south of the country later this week.