PARIS, FRANCE The world may temporarily breach the 1.5 C warming mark within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global climate trends released Thursday. The World Meterological Organization and Britain s Met Office said there was a 40 per cent chance of the annual average global temperature surpassing 1.5 C above pre-industrial temperatures the aspirational warming limit of the Paris climate accord. According to the Met Office s updated global 10-year climate prediction, there is a 90 per cent chance of at least one year between 2021-2025 being the hottest on record. The annual average global temperature over the next five years is likely to be at least 1 C warmer than pre-industrial levels, within a range of 0.9 C-1.8 C warmer, it said.
The World Meteorological Organization and Britain's Met Office predicted that there is a 90 percent chance of at least one year between 2021-2025 being the hottest on record.
World may breach 1.5C warming within 5 years: WMO
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27/05/2021 - 10:56 There is a 90 percent chance of at least one year between 2021-2025 being the hottest on record, according to the Met Office s updated predictions MARIO TAMA GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File 3 min
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The world may temporarily breach the 1.5-Celsius warming mark within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global climate trends released Thursday.
The World Meterological Organization and Britain s Met Office said there was a 40 percent chance of the annual average global temperature surpassing 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures the aspirational warming limit of the Paris climate accord.
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Oct 3, 2020, was provisionally the wettest day in Britain since 1891.PHOTO: AFP
PublishedMar 11, 2021, 9:13 pm SGT
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Updated / Thursday, 11 Feb 2021
16:41
The Met Office said the last time a temperature below minus 20C was recorded in the UK was 23 December 2010
Temperatures plunged in the UK overnight, with a low of minus 23 Celsius recorded in one Scottish village, following an extreme freeze .
Temperatures in Braemar in Aberdeenshire fell to minus 23.0C, the lowest temperature recorded in the UK since 30 December 1995.
The Met Office said the last time a temperature below minus 20C was recorded in the UK was 23 December 2010.
It is also the lowest February temperature in Britain since 1955, when Winston Churchill was still prime minister. We can now confirm that last night was the coldest February night across the UK since 23rd February 1955, Britain s Met Office said adding that it includes the infamous winter of 1962/1963.