Mozambique recorded in 2024 an average temperature "unprecedented" in the last at least 75 years, 1.2 degrees Celsius above the previous analysis, with stations across the country recording more than 44 degrees Celsius, according to official data.
According to the annual report on the State of the Climate of Mozambique - 2024, from the National Institute of Meteorology (Inam) and to which Lusa had access today, this increase is "very close to the threshold" of 1.5 degrees Celsius established by the Paris Agreement, to significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.
"The Paris Agreement includes the commitment to keep the increase in global average temperature well below two degrees Celsius in the current century, compared to pre-industrial times, and the need for additional efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees," recalls Inam.
The report, which calculates that the country's average temperature was 1.2 degrees above the average for the previous period from 1981 to 2010, also points out that in 2024 the highest temperature recorded in Inam's network of meteorological stations was 44.5 degrees in Chingodzi, in the province of Tete, in the center of the country, on October 28. Furthermore, in Xai-Xai, Gaza province, in the south, a maximum temperature of 42.4 degrees was recorded and in Maputo 43 degrees.
"Almost the entire length of the provinces of Zambézia and Sofala, and parts of the provinces of Niassa, Nampula, Tete, Manica, Inhambane and Gaza recorded the driest month of December 2024 ever (1981 to 2024)," the study also reads.
In Inam's history, the Chingodzi station, in the city of Tete, also recorded the peak of temperatures monitored since 1951, having reached 49.9 degrees on November 18, 2023.
"This information on record average temperatures, persistent droughts and excessive rainfall highlights a severe pattern of extreme weather events that are evidence of climate change," says Inam's director general, Adérito Aramuge, in the message he wrote in the report.
The 2024 report points out that, with regard to drought, "national records were broken" in the center and south, but also highlights the record of "extreme rainfall throughout the country".
Mozambique is considered one of the most severely affected by global climate change, cyclically facing floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, but also prolonged periods of severe drought.
Between December and March, the country was hit by three cyclones which, in addition to destroying thousands of homes and infrastructure, caused around 150 deaths in the north and center of the country.
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