🌡️ Brazil has never been hotter

Hello! Welcome back to the Brazil Climate newsletter. This week, we look at the announcement that 2024 was Brazil’s hottest year since records began. What were the causes of this increase? And what does it mean for the country (and the planet) going forward?

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How did Brazil get so hot?

Last year was the hottest ever recorded in Brazil, with an average temperature of 25.02 degrees Celsius (77.04 Fahrenheit) throughout the year. This broke 2023’s previous high of 24.92°C, meaning that since the National Meteorology Institute’s (Inmet) records began in 1961, the country has never been hotter than in the past two years.

Inmet’s data compares annual temperatures to the historical mean of 1991-2020 (24.23°C). Since 2002, all but four years have been hotter than this average.

In the age of anthropogenic climate change, these increases in temperature are seen on a global scale, not just in Brazil. 

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