In its climate bulletin reporting recorded variations in surface air and sea surface temperature, sea ice cover and hydrological variables on a global scale, it reported that global sea ice cover marks a record low in February, which is revealed as the third warmest February on a global scale.

February 2025 exceeded by 1.59 °C the estimated average levels for the period 1850-1900, which is used to define the pre-industrial era, and was the 19th month in a 20-month period in which the global average surface air temperature exceeded the 1.5 °C barrier compared to pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

Its statistics also show that the global average temperature in the boreal winter of 2025 (December 2024 to February 2025) was the second highest since records began, at 0.71 °C above the average for those three months in the period 1991-2020, 0.05 °C below the record set in the boreal winter of 2024.

In February 2025, Europe recorded predominantly below-average precipitation; this coincided with below-average surface soil moisture across much of central and eastern Europe, southeastern Spain, and Turkey.

In addition, most of North America, southwest and central Asia, far eastern China, and most of Australia and South America had drier than average conditions, and wildfires broke out in Argentina.

The report states that wetter than average conditions were observed in the eastern and western United States, Alaska and parts of Canada, as well as in regions of the Arabian Peninsula, central Russia and central Asia.

Southeastern Africa and the South Pacific witnessed the transit of several cyclones that caused significant damage.

ef/abo/mem/alb