WMO, "This year will also be the 'hotest year' in history."

Following last year, this year is expected to be the hottest year in history, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicted.

The WMO said in a press release on the 8th local time that it will disclose the forecast and climate observation data at the 29th United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Climate Change to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from the 11th.

The WMO did not give specific figures, including global average temperatures.

However, the analysis of the Earth's surface temperature was conducted from January to September this year, and various observations such as sea surface temperature and sea ice status will be presented at the general meeting.

The WMO explained that the average global temperature between January and September this year is higher than in the same period last year.

The WMO predicts that changes over the next three months will affect the average annual temperature, but considering the nine-month trend, last year's record is likely to be broken.

Last year, global surface temperatures were 1.45 degrees Celsius higher than the 1850-1900 average, which is considered pre-industrial.

The average global temperature last year was 14.98 degrees Celsius, observed by the Copernicus Climate Change Research Institute, the European Union's climate change monitoring organization that measures WMO and data together.

This is the highest number since observation.