US EditionEarth Records the Second Warmest May Since 1940
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However, the 1.5 degree series was broken, meaning this May was only 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer than the average between 1850 and 1900.
This is clear from the latest monthly climate summary of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) - dependent on the European Commission-, released on Thursday. May 2025 was the second hottest May on the planet's surface since at least 1940, with an average of 15.79 degrees, which is 0.53 more than the average between 1991 and 2020. It was only 0.12 degrees colder than May 2024, which remains the warmest in the historical series.The world ave…
The values confirm that, for the first time in more than a year and a half, the temperature remained 10 tenths of the threshold of the 1.5 of warming compared to the pre-industrial era.
Carlos Buontempo, director of the program , assures that it is "a short breath" although he expects the threshold of 1.5 degrees to be exceeded again. More information: The UN alerts Spain: the last heat waves are being warmer up to 3 °C than in the 90s.
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