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According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Earth continued to suffer a period of significant warming during 2020.
A provisional estimate suggests this year will be one of the three warmest, right behind 2016 and 2019.
The warmest six years in global records dating back to 1850 have now occurred since 2015, which is an extremely alarming figure.
The most notable temperature jump was in the Siberian Arctic, where temperatures were as much as 5C above average, culminating in a 38 ° C reading in Verkhoyansk on June 20, which is temporarily the highest known temperature recorded anywhere north of the Arctic Circle.
With data available from January to October this year, the WMO says it will be set at about 1.2C above the baseline in 2020, but with an error margin of 0.1C.
The WMO warns that warming continues to encourage melting in many parts of the world, including Greenland, where about 152 billion tons of ice is lost from the ice sheet in the year to August 2020. During the North Atlantic hurricane season, 30 named storms were recorded, breaking a record in the number of such events.
