According to scientists, 2025 was warm, although not as hot as previous years. However, this does not mean that global warming did not manifest itself. New temperature records were set in many countries around the world.
Temperature records
Despite the fact that it is now the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, scientists are talking about global warming on our planet. The reason for this is that they have analyzed all the weather data for this year. It turned out to be cooler than 2024 and 2023, but still noticeably warmer than anything that came before it.
Throughout 2025, 120 national monthly temperature records were set in different countries around the world. In other words, if all the daily readings for every day of the month were averaged, the result would be higher than for the same month in the same country throughout the entire history of observations.
And this is despite the fact that many poor countries simply cannot publish such data. However, scientists were able to compensate for their absence thanks to meteorological satellites in Earth’s orbit.
Hot weather
This year, climatologists focused their attention on Central Asia. In Tajikistan, in particular, temperatures this summer were 3°C higher than the average for 1981-2010. Neighboring Kazakhstan, Iran, and Uzbekistan were not far behind. And this is despite the fact that the region does not have an abundance of water.
It was also hot in another arid region—the Sahel. This is the name given to the countries in northern Africa. Here, the average monthly temperature was 1.5°C higher than usual. The same thing happened in western Africa, but on a smaller scale.
Europe did not experience such catastrophic heat this year. However, around 10 European countries were on the verge of or close to breaking their annual temperature records, particularly due to the exceptional summer.
In Switzerland and several Balkan countries, summer temperatures were 2°C and even 3°C above seasonal averages. Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom also experienced the worst summer on record, with extreme heat causing widespread forest fires.
The driest spring in a century has led to water shortages in the UK. Northern Europe largely avoided the heatwave that hit Europe in late June, but experienced an abnormally warm autumn. The last 12 months will be one of the two warmest years on record in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland.
According to phys.org
