Europe is the continent that warms the most: 2024 the hottest year ever recorded. Extreme events: 335 dead
The report of Copernicus and world meteorological organization. Strong differences between the east and west. Floods: hit 413 thousand people
« THE’Europe is the continent that heats up faster And it is suffering serious impacts due to extreme weather phenomena and climate change. Each fraction of grade more than the temperature accentuates the risks for our lives, for economies and for the planet ». Disturbing summary that of Celeste Saul, secretary general ofWorld Meteorological Organization (OMM), which spread the 2024 ratio on the European state of the climate on Tuesday, created together with the climate change service of Copernicus (This is the link to see the complete report)
Between drought and torrential rains
The difference in rainfall between Western and Eastern Europe immediately jumps to the eye, with a strong one drought that last year he struck in particular Ukraine. Western Europe has recorded one of the most rainy ten years since 1950. The abundant rainfall They also invested Italy with floods in Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Liguria. In Milan there were 111 days of rain, with 58% more rainfall. Between February and March last year, 420 millimeters of rain fell, record since 1776, as detected byanalyses Corriere della Sera/ilmeteo.it on the climatic livability index in our country. At the end of October in Spain, extreme rainfall and floods occurred which caused devastating impacts and victims in the province of Valencia.
Floods: 335 dead
Precisely for the strong rains the most popular floods have occurred by
2013. Almost a third of the European river network recorded floods which exceeded the « high » flood threshold. Storms and the
floods hit about 413 thousand people in Europe, causing at least 335 victims. 30% of the European river network exceeded the « high » flood threshold, while 12% exceeded the « serious » flood threshold. According to the Copernicus-Oum report theEurope is one of the regions with the greatest increase in the risk of floodsthe.
Temperatures
A 1.5 degree global warming could cause 30 thousand deaths per year in Europe due to the extreme heat. “We observed the
longer wave of heat in south-eastern Europe and a mass loss
Record glacial in Scandinavia and Alle Malbard « , added Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus service on the climate change of the UCMWF (European medium -term weather forecast center). In the Old Continent in 2024 there was the second largest number of days of hot stress and tropical nights, that is, almost a month of at least « strong hot stress » and twelve tropical nights (when the minimum does not drop below 20 ° C), but but The inhabitants of Reggio Calabria last year spent 129 tropical nights, 121 in Naples. High night temperatures, concludes the report, can affect health, offering little respite from daytime hot stress.
