The European Copernicus observatory announced today that last month was the hottest September on record, beating the record in 2020 by an “extraordinary” margin.
«September 2023 was the hottest September on record worldwide», beating the previous record, in 2020, by an «extraordinary» margin and continuing a series of global monthly records that began in June, revealed Copernicus in a monthly report.
With a global average surface temperature of 16,38 degrees Celsius, the month of September was an “unprecedented anomaly”, surpassing the record set in the ninth month of 2020 by a margin of 0,5 degrees Celsius.
September 2023 was "1,75 degrees Celsius warmer than the average September in the period 1850-1900", before the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate were recorded, Copernicus added.
On the other hand, the global average temperature since January is the warmest ever measured in the first nine months of a year: 1,4 degrees Celsius above the climate in the 1850s-1900s and closer than ever to the most ambitious limit of the Paris agreement (1,5 degrees Celsius in several years).
«This extreme month» of September «propelled 2023 to the dubious honor of leading the ranking, on its way to becoming the hottest year and surpassing the average temperatures of the pre-industrial era by around 1,4 degrees Celsius», he said, in a statement, the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change service, Samantha Burgess.
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