AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Many European countries had their warmest January since records began, weather offices said on Wednesday, bringing Dutch daffodils out early and triggering grassland fires in Hungary.
The reports came as scientists and government experts in the U.N. climate panel were meeting in Paris. They were expected to approve a report blaming human activities, led by burning fossil fuels, for most of the global warming in the past 50 years.
The report, to be issued on February 2, was also expected to project rising temperatures in the 21st century that could bring more floods, more powerful storms, droughts and a rise in sea levels of up to about half a meter (1 ft 8 in).
In the Netherlands, January temperatures were the highest since they were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said on Wednesday, averaging about 7.1 degrees Celsius -- 2.8 degrees more than usual. Already daffodils were flowering more than a month early in fields south-west of Amsterdam near the North Sea.
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