According To Copernicus, October Was Also The Hottest On Record

Following September, October of 2023 also had the highest temperatures ever.

This was reported by the European Copernicus Observatory on Climate Change, which recorded an average of 15.38 degrees last month, higher than the previous record in the same month registered in 2019.

The recorded temperature was 0.85 degrees above the average for October in 1991-2020 and 0.4 degrees above the average for October 2019. Comparing the data with estimates of average temperatures during the pre-industrial period (1850-1900), the past October was 1.7 degrees warmer.

This year is a candidate to be the hottest on record. In 2023, from January to October, “average global temperatures are the highest on record: 1.43 degrees above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average and 0.10 degrees above the 2016 ten-month average, which is currently the warmest calendar year ever recorded,” the Copernicus Climate Change Service wrote in a note. “For Europe, October 2023 became the fourth warmest October on record, with an increase of 1.30 degrees compared to the 1991-2020 average.”

The average sea surface temperature in October was also the highest on record at 20.79 degrees, while rainfall was above average across much of Europe. It should be emphasized that the hurricanes Babet and Aline that struck Northern Europe, Portugal, and Spain respectively caused particularly heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding.

Summer 2023 and September were also record hot months, according to findings from Copernicus, an Earth observation system that collects information from satellites, as well as land, sea, and airborne sensors.