Romania’s Ministry of the Environment has announced that 2023 was the warmest year in recorded history for the country.
The average temperature throughout the year was 12.5 degrees Celsius, a 2.3-degree deviation from the 1981-2010 period.
Furthermore, the period of 2012-2023 represents the warmest 12 consecutive years in the history of meteorological measurements, according to the National Meteorological Administration, cited by Profit.ro.
Even on Christmas Day, temperatures reached a maximum of 17 degrees Celsius, and at the meteorological station in Calafat, near the Black Sea, almost 21 degrees were registered – a record for the last six years.
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2023 has been the warmest year ever recorded in European history. Every month saw record temperatures, with November ending the warmest boreal autumn in the Northern Hemisphere in modern times, the institution says.
The 2011-2020 period is the warmest decade ever recorded, and the average global surface temperature reached record highs in the first 11 months of the year, according to the European observer Copernicus.
Continued warming means that extreme weather phenomena will become even more frequent and intense, exacerbating the damage and loss of human lives caused by droughts, floods, hurricanes, and fires.
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