Scientists from the European Climate Change Service Copernicus said last September was the third hottest month on record. The global temperature is 16.11 degrees Celsius, 0.66 degrees higher than the average for the period 1991-2020.
Scientists note that temperatures on the planet remain consistently high. September 2025 is only 0.27 degrees colder than September 2023, when the absolute temperature record was set.
The average temperature on the European territory in September is 15.95 degrees. Above-average scores are observed in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, while regions in Western Europe are below average.
Above-average temperatures were observed in Canada, parts of Greenland, northwestern Siberia and much of Antarctica. Colder-than-normal weather in north-central Siberia, Western Australia and eastern Antarctica.
In many parts of Europe, September was wetter than usual. Heavy rainfall occurred in eastern France, western Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. In southern Norway and northern Italy, rain has caused catastrophic flooding. Drier than normal conditions were observed across most of the Iberian Peninsula, the Norwegian coast, much of Italy and the Balkans.
The area of sea ice in the Arctic reached 5.07 million square kilometers last month. Copernicus said this was an unusually low level and showed that temperatures were above normal for the summer.
Former scientists announced the passage of the first climate “point of no return.”. Temperatures have become too high for coral reefs to survive.
