A weather forecast that predicted a storm on 5 June 1945, made the #DDay landings to be postponed one day.
Using #ERA5, #C3S fifth-generation reanalysis of the global climate from 1940 to the present, we can reconstruct the weather conditions on this fateful day.
"We find that the CMIP6 simulations in the central Arctic, with generally thicker ice and snow, align well with satellite observations ... By contrast, climate reanalyses like ERA5 exhibit widespread warm biases exceeding 2 °C in the same region."
For the first time in recorded history, the 180-day running mean for the global surface temperature just crossed 1.70°C above the pre-industrial 1850-1900 #IPCC baseline.
'World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts.
This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark 'Paris agreement', but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.'
Wanneer dringt het door dat nieuwe records geen teken van succes zijn?
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🌡️🌍 Global temperature briefly passed a critical warming threshold last weekend. According to #ERA5 data, 17 November 2023 was the first day where global temperature exceeded 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
📈🌡️ August 2023 is the warmest month of August in the #ERA5 data record & the second warmest month after July 2023, according to the latest monthly bulletin of the #CopernicusClimate Change Service (#C3S).
📈According to #ERA5 the 7 days from 3rd to 9th July 2023 were the 7 hottest days on record globally, making the first week of July 2023 the hottest week on record.
📈June was the warmest June globally at just over 0.5°C above average;
📈 the North Atlantic saw record-high sea surface temperatures;
📈#Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest extent for June on record at 17% below average.
According to preliminary data from the #ERA5 dataset, the global average 2m #temperature reached 16.88°C on Monday, breaking the previous record of 16.80°C from August 2016.