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WMO confirms 2024 was hottest year on record
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Posted on January 10, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on January 10, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
The WMO confirms 2024 as the hottest year on record, with unprecedented temperatures and extreme weather globally. The full report will be released at 5 p.m. Geneva time.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The year 2024 was the hottest on record, a spokesperson for the World Meteorological Organisation said ahead of the release later on Friday of a comprehensive report incorporating the findings of several regional climate monitoring institutes.
The findings, due to be released at 5 p.m. Geneva time (1600 GMT) will collate findings of meteorological observatories in Britain, China, the EU and the U.S., WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said.
"The WMO will later today confirm that 2024 was the hottest year on record," she told a news conference in Geneva.
"We saw extraordinary land and sea surface temperatures, extraordinary ocean heat, accompanied by very extreme weather affecting many countries around the world, destroying lives, livelihoods, hopes and dreams," she added.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt, editing by Thomas Seythal)
The article discusses the WMO's confirmation that 2024 was the hottest year on record, highlighting extreme weather and temperature data.
Meteorological observatories in Britain, China, the EU, and the U.S. contributed data to the WMO report.
The report highlights unprecedented land and sea temperatures and extreme weather events affecting many countries.
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