Australia, Japan, several provinces of China and Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located in the Arctic, experienced their hottest August on record, according to various local meteorological organizations.
For us it is a “red alert. It is clear that temperatures are rising… beyond what we would like,” said Celeste Saulo, director of the WMO, a UN agency, “and that is because action is not enough.”
Although the exact global average temperature for August 2024 is not yet known, Copernicus […] established that it would be higher than the record of 16.82°C measured in August last year.
Human-caused global warming has reached an “unprecedented pace” but there is “some optimism”
“Thresholds are constantly being exceeded but we must act,” she said at a regional climate forum bringing together local meteorological services in Singapore.
She acknowledged that while “we are certainly worried, we are not paralyzed. That means we need more action.”
The WMO chief also called for better monitoring and support for weather agencies, adding: “We need more resources.”
August 2024 thus continues a quasi-uninterrupted series of 15 months where average global temperatures have reached historic highs, synonymous with heatwaves, droughts and storms reinforced by additional evaporation from the oceans.
At the forum, Singapore was designated as a regional monitoring centre for pollution caused by wildfires and smoke.
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