{"id":276614,"date":"2025-04-08T02:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/march-hottest-on-record-in-europe-and-by-some-margin\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T02:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:48:16","slug":"march-hottest-on-record-in-europe-and-by-some-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/march-hottest-on-record-in-europe-and-by-some-margin\/","title":{"rendered":"March hottest on record in Europe and by some margin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month was the hottest March on record in Europe, new data has found – surpassing the average by some margin.<\/p>\n

And that raises the risk, for now, of wildfires this summer, campaigners have warned.<\/p>\n

The average air temperature across the continent was a significant 2.41C above the recent average for March (1991-2020), according to new figures from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change<\/strong><\/a> Service.<\/p>\n

That figure may not sound like much, but as it is an average figure, it smooths out the extremes, meaning it will have been much higher in some places.<\/p>\n

Eastern Europe and southwest Russia in particular saw the mercury soar.<\/p>\n

A heat map released alongside the data paints most of Europe in dark orange and red to signify just how high the heat was above average.<\/p>\n

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Last week the UK’s Met Office found England had its sunniest March on records going back to 1920.<\/p>\n

The total of 185.8 hours of sunshine smashed the previous record from 1929 by more than 14 hours. The outstanding hot and dry conditions fuelled multiple wildfires<\/a><\/strong> by drying out plants and trees.<\/p>\n

And this week temperatures of above 20C (68F) are set to return<\/strong><\/a>, following the hottest day of the year so far on Friday.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to rainfall, March was a month of two extremes in Europe, Copernicus found.<\/p>\n

It was drier than average in the UK and Ireland, and in a big area from central Europe to Greece and Turkey – shown in dark brown on a second map that illustrates wet versus dry conditions.<\/p>\n

Not so over Spain and Portugal, where a series of storms brought widespread floods, forcing some from their homes but refilling reservoirs parched in last year’s drought.<\/p>\n

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While some parts of Europe had their driest March on record, elsewhere it was the wettest in at least the past 47 years.<\/p>\n

Samantha Burgess from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which runs Copernicus, said the new data is “highlighting once again how temperatures are continuing to break records”.<\/p>\n

United Nations scientists say it is “unequivocal<\/strong><\/a>” that humans are warming the planet, which drives up average temperatures as well as extreme heatwaves.<\/p>\n

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That’s because activities like burning fossil fuels release greenhouse gases that trap heat around the Earth.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Newsom from Greenpeace warned hot and dry weather could fuel the conditions for intense wildfires this summer.<\/p>\n

“As early spring weather starts to feel more and more like summer, Europe is potentially on track to face ever harsher heat waves and wildfires later in the year.<\/p>\n

“The past month’s contrasting rainfall extremes across the European region alone pose an immediate challenge to our food systems and to the economy as a whole.<\/p>\n

“Europe’s citizens must not be left alone to pay for the chaos that dirty energy companies are fuelling.”<\/p>\n

She called for new taxes on oil majors to help communities cope with climate disasters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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