![]() India and Pakistan experienced soaring heat in March and April. National heat tollsĪlthough 2022 did not break global temperature records, it topped many national heat records throughout the world. The Greenland ice sheet lost mass for the 26th consecutive year and it rained –rather than snowed – on the summit for the first time in September.Ī young boy stands in front of a waterhole in a drought zone in Bangladesh. ![]() The past two and a half years alone account for 10 per cent of overall sea level rise since satellite measurements started nearly 30 years ago, said WMO’s provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022 report.Īnd 2022 took an exceptionally heavy toll on glaciers in the European Alps, with initial indications of record-shattering melt. Sea levels, which have doubled since 1993 ocean heat content and acidification are also at recorded highs. Greenhouse gases are just one climate indicator used to observe levels. WMO will also promote a new way of monitoring the sinks and sources of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide by using the ground-based Global Atmosphere Watch, satellite and assimilation modelling, which allows better understanding of how key greenhouse gases behave in the atmosphere. “There is a need to enhance preparedness for such extreme events and to ensure that we meet the UN target of Early Warnings for All in the next five years”, said the top WMO official. Early warningsĮarly warnings, increasing investment in the basic global observing system and building resilience to extreme weather and climate will be among WMO priorities in 2023 – the year that the WMO community celebrates its 150th anniversary. Moreover, this will be the tenth successive year that temperatures have reached at least 1☌ above pre-industrial levels – likely to breach the 1.5☌ limit of the Paris Agreement. While the persistence of a cooling La Niña event, now in its third year, means that 2022 will not be the warmest year on record, its cooling impact will be short-lived and not reverse the long-term warming trend caused by record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. I would not bet my retirement fund on these animals' behaviour.While Global temperature figures for 2022 will be released in mid-January, the past eight years are on track to be the eight warmest on record, according to WMO. And that usually indicates there's a storm coming along the horizon. ![]() So you start to see large swirls of sparrows, for example, that are swirling about like in horror movies. Georgia - Obelix was always saying "birds are flying low, we shall have rain." Is that what they do?ĭoug - No, they simply tend to get more agitated and to fly around more. ![]() Georgia - What do the bats and birds actually do? Because I can remember reading an Asterix and Obelix cartoons that were saying.Ĭhris - Ah well known scientific source of information. Air pressure tends to be the one that most animals respond to because they've got sensors in their ears, let's say - not exactly but in their ears. But most of the animals are responding to many other things. ![]() Chris - Are there actually any indicator species that we can rely on that predict the weather - not just cows but other things in the environment that do tell us, aha this is going to happen climatically or something?ĭoug - Yeah, various birds or bats for example - well not strictly birds but bats are a reasonably good indicator that you're getting ready for bad weather anyway, low and high pressure zone is about to collide. ![]()
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