2018- 4th Warmest Year

Feb. 7, 2019

Two agencies, the United Kingdom Met Office and the World Meteorological Organization had analysed global temperatures and concluded that 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record behind 2016, 2015 and 2017.

Key Facts

  • 2018’s average temperature was 58.42 degrees (14.69 Celsius), which is 1.42 degrees (0.79 Celsius) warmer than the 20th-century average.

  • NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate scientists said even though 2018 was a tad cooler than the three previous years that’s mostly due to random weather variations.

  • Using computer simulations, the British weather office forecast s that the next five years will average somewhere between 58.51 and 59.49 degrees (14.73 to 15.27 Celsius).

  • That would be warmer than the last four years.

Source : Indian Express

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