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The State of the Climate in Europe 2022

World Meteorological Organization and the Copernicus Climate Change Service

Earth’s climate system is complex. To simplify its complexity, the WMO uses seven climate indicators to observe Earth’s changing climate at global and regional levels and to understand how Earth’s climate is influenced by interactions involving the atmosphere, ocean, earth, clouds, ice, land and life. The State of the Climate in Europe 2022 offers a regional perspective of climate variability and its impacts on the European continent.

What was the climate like in Europe in 2022?

How much is sea level rising in Europe?

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Extreme events in Europe (RA VI) as reported by WMO Members. Red shading represents countries who have responded to survey with at least one event reported. Symbols represent different types of extreme events by color.

Climate Policy & Action

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© World Meteorological Organization, 2023

WMO uses datasets developed and maintained by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the United Kingdom’s Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom.

It also uses reanalysis datasets from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts and its Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the Japan Meteorological Agency. This method combines millions of meteorological and marine observations, including from satellites, with models to produce a complete reanalysis of the atmosphere. The combination of observations with models makes it possible to estimate temperatures at any time and in any place across the globe, even in data-sparse areas such as the polar regions.

Internationally recognized datasets are used for all other key climate indicators. Full details are available in the State of the Climate in Europe report.

Data Visualization

Claire Ransom