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 by Staff Writers Moscow (AFP) Jan 31, 2020
This January was the warmest ever recorded in the Russian capital, the country's weather service said on Friday, as climate change pushes global temperatures to record highs. "The average temperature observed in Moscow in January was around zero degrees Celsius," Lyudmila Parshina, a meteorologist at Russia's weather service, Rosgidromet, told AFP. She said Moscow's average temperature for January was 9.3 degrees Celsius (48.7 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average, beating the previous record by 1.5 degrees. Parshina however declined to say whether the latest temperature record was linked to climate change. Weather records have been kept since 1879 in Moscow and since 1891 in Russia as a whole. In January, the average snow depth recorded in Moscow was seven centimetres compared to 32 centimetres on average, Rosgidromet said. Known for its cold winters, Moscow has also seen its warmest December in a century. 2019 was also the hottest ever registered in Russia.
Record heat forecast for coming years Paris (AFP) Jan 30, 2020 The coming five years are anticipated to be warmest period on record, Britain's Met Office said Thursday, warning of an outside chance of Earth breaching the Paris deal 1.5C temperature rise cap before 2024. In a regular "decadal forecast" looking at predicted near-term climate trends, it said that each year between 2020-2024 is set to be 1.06-1.62C hotter than historical averages. The Met Office forecast it "likely" that the hottest year on record, 2016, will be beaten in that time frame. " ... read more
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