Rome, 6 March (LaPresse) – Last month was the hottest February globally, and the 19th month to exceed the 1.5 degree global average temperature increase threshold enshrined in the Paris Agreement. This is according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) – implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with EU funding – in its monthly climate bulletin. The month of February 2025 – continues Copernicus – was 1.59 degrees above the average for the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900). It was the 19th month out of the last 20 months in which the global average surface air temperature was more than 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level. The 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level is the first threshold taken into consideration by the Paris Agreement within which to contain the average increase in global temperatures. February 2025 was the third warmest February globally, with a mean surface air temperature of 13.36 degrees Celsius, 0.63 degrees above the 1991–2020 February average, and only marginally warmer (by 0.03 degrees) than the fourth warmest February in 2020. The global average temperature for the 2025 Northern Hemisphere winter (December 2024 to February 2025) was the second highest on record, at 0.71 degrees above the 1991–2020 average for these three months, and 0.05 degrees below the record set for the 2024 Northern Hemisphere winter. The 12-month period from March 2024 to February 2025 was 0.71 degrees above the 1991–2020 average and 1.59 degrees above the pre-industrial level.
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