2024-08-16 11:51:51
The world continues to overheat. The waters of the Mediterranean Sea recorded the highest daily temperature known this Thursday, the first Spanish marine research center announced on Friday, beating from a year to the previous record set in 2023. On August 15, the average daily temperature of the Mediterranean. The ocean has reached 28.90 ° C, breaking the record of 28.71 ° C made on July 24, 2023, Justino Martinez, researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) of Barcelona and the Catalan institute ICATMAR.
These preliminary readings come from satellite data from the marine project of the European Copernicus Observatory, which goes back to 1982. must be considered with caution” before a more in-depth human verification, Justino Martinez explained.
It was hotter than 2003
For the next two summers, the Mediterranean will be hotter than during the extraordinary summer of 2003, when the average daily temperature was 28.25 ° C on August 23, the previous record which has stood for twenty years. This new record comes after the hot month of July on a large part of the Mediterranean basin, one of the “hot spots” of global warming, also hit by heat waves, drought and fire, like the classics in August in Greece.
Sea heat waves in the Mediterranean have a great impact on fish, molluscs and plants, also favor invasive species and increase the intensity of the maximum precipitation, due to the high density. The record was also broken for the average daily temperature (28.56°C on August 15 compared to 28.40°C on July 24, 2023), but this measurement is not consistent over the median temperature because it is too disturbed. by very rare readings in the isolated point of the Mediterranean.
Today, “What is interesting is not so much to reach the maximum in a given day, but to observe a long period of such high temperatures, even without breaking the record”, explained Justino Martinez on Tuesday, when The 2023 record is correct. . “From 2022, surface temperatures have been abnormally high for a long time, even when we take into account the state of climate change,” he added.
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