We just experienced the hottest October ever!

The European Copernicus Observatory reported this Wednesday that October 2023 was the hottest month ever registered in the world and the fifth consecutive monthly record since June 2023.

The observatory shows that with an average temperature of 15.38 degrees on the Earth’s surface, the month of October 2023 surpassed the previous record level recorded in October 2019.

October 2023 is also 1.7 degrees higher than the average October before the Industrial Revolution (1850-1900), according to Copernicus.

Since January 2023, the average degree has been the hottest on record for the first ten months of 2023.

The deputy head of the climate change department at the Copernicus Observatory said: “We can state with almost certainty that 2023 will be the hottest year in history, hence the necessity for urgent and ambitious climate action, with the approach of the COP28 climate summit.

The same source added that these new record levels gave rise to a series of extreme climatic events (drought, fires, floods, etc.).