Europe's Spring Coldest Since 2013, UN Climate Agency Says

The World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations climate agency, reported Tuesday that Europe saw its coldest March through May since 2013, with temperatures 0.45 C below the 1991-2020 average.

During a briefing from the agency's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis cautioned that Europe's cool start did not reflect any pause in the world's climate change problems. In fact, data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service show that the global average temperature for May was 0.26 C higher than the 1991-2020 mean, according to the U.N. News website.