According to the EU climate service, the March temperature in Europe was Copernicus as high as ever. The average temperature was 6.03 degrees Celsius and thus around 2.4 degrees above the March 1991 to 2020, said Copernicus in Bonn on Tuesday. The strongest deviations occurred in Eastern Europe and Southwestern Russia, while lower temperatures were measured on the Iberian Peninsula than on average. According to the climate service, the second heat was in March. The air temperature reached an average of 14.06 degrees Celsius, which was 1.6 degrees above the March from pre-industrial times (1850 to 1900). In total, the 1.5-degree threshold for the climate system has been exceeded 20 times within the past 21 months. In the Paris climate agreement, the global community had set itself the goal of limiting the warming of the earth to the pre-industrial period to well under two, but if possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In 2024, this border was exceeded for the first time in relation to a whole year. The EU climate service Copernicus regularly publishes data on the state of climate change.
