It was (yet one more) dangerous local weather 12 months for our planet — and an excellent worse one for Europe, in response to the EU’s local weather change service.

Copernicus’ newest report, printed Tuesday, paints a dire image that’s now all too acquainted.

Final 12 months was the fifth-warmest on file globally and the second-warmest for Europe, the place temperatures have elevated by greater than twice the worldwide common previously 30 years.

The Continent additionally skilled its hottest-ever summer season, marked by devastating warmth waves and wildfires that destroyed over 800,000 hectares of land and brought about a spike in carbon emissions.

Prolonged droughts hit crop yields, with little hope in sight for a fast restoration. Unusually heat winters is perhaps good for shopper vitality payments, however with out sufficient snow to revive rivers’ water provide this winter, farmers concern that the consequences of final 12 months’s drought may lengthen effectively into 2023.

The mixture of hostile climate circumstances and the fallout of the warfare in Ukraine is creating the proper storm for a international meals disaster, with thousands and thousands of individuals going through hunger. Costs of staple commodities like wheat and vegetable oils, which had already skilled volatility in earlier years, spiked within the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, although early indicators counsel the crunch is perhaps beginning to ease.

Here is Europe’s sizzling, lengthy, dry 2022 — in eight charts and maps.