The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that 2024 is the warmest year on record, based on six international datasets. The

Four of the six international datasets crunched by WMO indicated a higher than 1.5℃ global average increase for the whole of last year but two did not.

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UN weather experts from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the hottest year on record, at 1.55 degrees Celsius (C) above pre-industrial temperatures. The data was released at a time when Los Angeles in the US was devastated by wildfires, forcing thousands of people to flee.

By Kate Abnett and Alison Withers BRUSSELS (Reuters) -2024 was the hottest year on record, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday, and the first in which temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times - a threshold that may lead to more severe climate disasters.

Weather organizations from around the world agree that the planet's average global surface temperature in 2024 could well have passed a crucial threshold meant to limit the worst effects of climate change.