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The European Union's Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization reported in April 2024 that Europe was Earth's most rapidly warming continent, with temperatures rising at a rate twice as high as the global average rate, and that Europe's 5-year average temperatures were 2.3 °C higher relative to pre-industrial temperatures compared to 1.3 °C for the rest of the world.
It is increasing "the "variability" of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation" creating both stronger El Niño and La Niña events. [4] Climate change may also cause changes in the jet streams that probably contributed to the heat waves. Warming in certain Arctic regions makes the jet stream weaker and wavier, causing different weather patterns to ...
English: "a Decadal trends in heatwave frequency (days/decade) and b heatwave cumulative intensity (°C/decade) for July-August 1979–2020. c Probability density distributions of decadal trends of heatwave frequency of all land grid points for Europe (in dark red, as the region included in the dashed box of (a, b): 35–70°N and 10oW-50°E) and the midlatitudes (20–70°N) excluding Europe ...
This year will be the world's warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first few months of 2025, European Union scientists said on ...
Map of increasing heatwave trends (frequency and cumulative intensity) over the midlatitudes and Europe, July–August 1979–2020. In western Europe, heatwaves have been increasing "three-to-four times faster compared to the rest of the northern midlatitudes over the past 42 years". [35]
Map of increasing heatwave trends (frequency and cumulative intensity) over the midlatitudes and Europe, July–August 1979–2020 [44] Heatwaves over land have become more frequent and more intense in almost all world regions since the 1950s, due to climate change. Heat waves are more likely to occur simultaneously with droughts.
In the same week, temperatures in the northern and central regions remained above 46 °C (115 °F), resulting in an increase in power demand. [29] A May study by the World Weather Attribution found that Thailand's record heat wave was exacerbated by high humidity and a large number of forest fires that occurred around the same time. [52] [53]
A high pressure system in the upper atmosphere traps heat near the ground, forming a heat wave (for North America in this example). A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather [1]: 2911 generally considered to be at least five consecutive days.