Preliminary data issued by the European Union's Copernicus climate change service showed that this winter was the hottest in Greece's recorded history, according to what the Greek newspaper Katimerini reported on Sunday.
According to data analyzed by the scientific team of the National Observatory in the capital, Athens, the Greek winter in 2023-24 (which began in December 2023, and continued in January and February 2024) was specifically characterized by long periods of high temperatures, which significantly exceeded seasonal standards. .
The National Observatory in Athens reported that the winter of 2023-24 was recorded as the warmest in the history of Greece, as it exceeded in terms of its temperatures the winter of 2015-2016. The average maximum temperature in Greece during the winter period has increased by 1.8 degrees Celsius from 1960 to 2024.
In Austria, the latest official statistics confirmed weather experts’ expectations for the month of February, which has become the warmest since temperatures began to be recorded 257 years ago in this country, significantly exceeding the long-term average temperature recorded by 5.5 degrees, compared to the average for the period from 1991 to 2020.
The Austrian Climatological and Meteorological Services indicated that the month of February recorded the largest gap compared to the average temperature recorded over the long term, after the average temperature last February rose by 6.4 degrees in the lowlands, and by 5.9 degrees in the mountainous areas compared to the previous period. From 1961 to 1990.
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