07/12/2023 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission’s climate change observatory, Copernicus Climate Change, confirmed in its monthly climate bulletin, published on Wednesday 6 December, that 2023 will be the warmest year on record, with the warmest boreal autumn on record. With an average surface air temperature of 14.22°C, or 0.85°C above the 1991-2020 average, November 2023 was the warmest November on record. This is also the case for boreal autumn, from September to November 2023, with a global average temperature of 15.30°C, or 0.88°C above average. The average European temperature for September-November 2023 was 10.96°C, 1.43°C above average, and above-average precipitation was identified over a wide latitudinal band across Europe, as well as over the UK and Ireland, most of Scandinavia and Turkey. To see the newsletter, go to https://aeur.eu/f/a0n (PLD)