This year set to be one of four hottest on record, UN report says
A strong El Niño is expected to keep temperatures elevated and intensify heatwaves, floods and droughts worldwide, WMO said.
- On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization warned that 2027 could be the hottest year on record, with a strong El Niño event expected to bring further extreme heat.
- Global average surface temperatures from January to September 2026 were about 1.47 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with the past four years ranking as the warmest on record.
- Extreme heat in India affected 146.5 million people, while more than 1,300 died in Himalayan floods; heatwaves, drought, and wildfires in Europe led to more than 30,000 excess deaths.
- WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo stated El Niño acts as a "risk multiplier," noting "Heatwaves, tropical cyclones, and rainstorms are intensifying faster than our historical baselines prepared us for."
- This warning coincides with the United Nations-led COP31 climate conference, where world leaders gathered in Turkey to address the escalating climate crisis.
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The heat builds up in Earth's systems at an accelerated pace, warned the UN weather agency at the beginning of the COP31 climate change summit in Turkey. 2026 is about to become one of the hottest four years ever recorded, reports The Guardian.
Svenska Dagbladet
Large parts of the world are already above 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. New calculations indicate that the world is rapidly heading towards a two-degree rise.
Some regions may already be living in a 1.5°C warmer world
Regions worldwide may have already experienced around 90%–94% of the warming expected when the global average reaches 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, and 65%–76% of that expected at 2°C of warming. The findings, published in Nature Climate Change, suggest that regional warming in 2025 was statistically indistinguishable from the levels expected in a 1.5°C warmer world, underlining the immediate need for adaptation across all regions.
The Earth is not heated the same everywhere, so although global warming has officially not yet reached 1.5 °C, in practice most regions already suffer between 90 and 94 per cent of the projected heat for that threshold. According to an international study that has analysed warming in 46 regions of the Earth from the pre-industrial era to 2025, these areas have reached 65 to 76 per cent of the projected warming for the 2 °C limit, which set the P…
Westfalenpost
The global warming continues its record course. An unusually strong El Niño could allow temperatures to rise further in 2027.
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