November 9, 2025
Web desk
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued a stark warning the year 2025 is on track to be either the second- or third-warmest year ever recorded.
According to WMO’s latest analysis, the global average near-surface temperature from January through August 2025 stood at 1.42 °C above pre-industrial levels (with an uncertainty of 0.12 °C).
Moreover, the past eleven years 2015 through 2025 are set to rank as the warmest eleven years on record in the 176-year observational archive. The three most recent years (2023, 2024, 2025) are on track to be the hottest three.
WMO Secretary General Celeste Saulo said the findings reflect an “unprecedented streak of high temperatures” driven by record concentrations of greenhouse gases.
The report also emphasises that even though the world has not yet definitively breached the 1.5 °C long term warming threshold set by the Paris Agreement, the margin for staying below that limit is rapidly narrowing.
