The Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) has reported that this Friday has been the warmest 28 October since temperatures were first recorded, with the previous record being set in 1913.
On their website, the RMI reported that the mercury had reached 22.2°C in Uccle, 2 degrees more than the previous set in 1913 (20.2°C), which the meteorologist David Dehenauw has put down to currents coming from both the south of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Spanish peninsula.
"There will still be a few days that are quite warm for this time of year," he added, "but by the end of the autumn holidays, the mercury will once again sit at around 12°C."
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Furthermore, fellow weather expert Frank Deboosere explained to VRT NWS "that 40% of the record-breaking days all are from the 21st century, although it has only been 22 years since the beginning of the century.”
Despite the fact that "the lowest temperature records were at the close of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, which is not a coincidence, it is linked to global warming," Deboosere said.
Which, as a result, echoed the views of an increasing number of experts and scientists, in the face of constant climate change denial.
This week, the UN published a report that countries' current pledges to limit greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient to avert a climate catastrophe.
The report notes that, based on countries' current pledges, "the best estimate of peak temperature in the twenty-first century is in the range of 2.1–2.9 °C."
