2024 was the warmest year in Lithuania since records began, the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service said on Thursday.
The average annual air temperature in Lithuania was 9.5C degrees, which is 2.1 degrees higher than the average multi-year (1991–2020) air temperature.
The warmest year so far was 2020 when the average annual air temperature in Lithuania was 9.2C degrees.
All months in 2024, except for January, were warmer than the long-term average air temperature for those months.
According to the service, this is the second time that the country's annual average air temperature has exceeded 9C degrees.
Notably, with global climate change, the five warmest years in Lithuania have been recorded in the last ten years.
In Lithuania, last year's spring was the warmest since modern records began in 1961, and the long-term air temperature record for Vilnius shows that it was the warmest spring in almost 250 years.
Scientists say that the established climate patterns and water cycles are being disrupted, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe.
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