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Tourists often go to the coast of the Mediterranean for charming beaches and a warm sea, but these pleasant temperatures hide a long -term heating trend that provides shed rains and intense thunderstorms.
This scheme is clear in the data: in 1979, when the records began, the temperature of the European seas has increased, and over the past three years has been significantly higher than any previous year.
In 2024, the Sea of Europe reached the highest average annual surface temperature, when the lover is registered (13.73 ° C), according to the Copernicus climate change service.
This is almost 0.7 ° C higher than average and 0.06 ° C warmer than the previous record in 2023.
Last year, high temperatures were observed in the Central North Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Norwegian Sea and in the Barents Sea.
In the Mediterranean Sea, the average temperatures reached a record of 28.7 ° C August 13, 2024, which exceeded the previous recording of 28.3 ° C in July 2023.
These extremely high temperatures correspond to sea heat waves, periods of unusually high temperatures in the sea, which can take weeks, months or even years.
This phenomenon leads to the whitening of corals and the massive mortality of the species of the ocean, as well as to socio -economic consequences. Sea heat waves violate fishing, aquaculture and tourism, which leads to economic losses.
Also known as “underwater fires”, high sea temperatures in the Mediterranean were associated with more intense thunderstorms and a stronger amount of precipitation.
According to the Mediterranean Center for Ecological Research, the surface temperatures of the sea play a decisive role in the formation of weather conditions, such as sea auras in the summer months and the appearance of waterfalls in the fall.
In 2024, the unusual warm waters of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in August could increase the evaporation of a large amount of moisture in the atmosphere and aggravated the storms of Boris, which caused serious floods in Central and Eastern Europe.