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2023 was the hottest year on record, 1.48 °C warmer than the pre-industrial level. [16] 2023 surface air temperatures breached the 1.5 °C threshold for a record number of days. The world breached the Paris Agreement 1.5 °C warming mark for a record number of days. [17]
The following is a list of weather events that occurred on Earth in the year 2023. The year saw a transition from La Niña to El Niño , with record high global average surface temperatures . There were several natural disasters around the world from various types of weather, including blizzards , cold waves , droughts , heat waves , wildfires ...
Get the Corfu, Peloponnese Western Greece and the Ionian Island local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
On 25 July 2023, a Canadair CL-215 crashed in Karystos, killing its two pilots, [12] with a similar incident that happened almost 15 years to the day in the same area with the same casualties. [13] Later the same day, a 41-year-old shepherd was found charred in an inaccessible area outside the village of Platanistos in Karystos. [14]
On 15 July 2023, the National Observatory of Athens station in Elafonisi also recorded a maximum temperature of 44.2 °C (111.6 °F). [ 38 ] On 15 July, five people in Athens Urban Area were reported to have suffered from hyperthermia , while at least 10 more reportedly fainted, though it is not clear how many of them did so due to the heat.
Armed conflicts and attacks. A man accused of being the perpetrator of an explosion at the Megiddo Junction which injured a civilian two days ago is shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
March 2023 United States bank failures. American commercial bank and cryptocurrency services provider Silvergate Bank winds down its operations and liquidates its assets. Law and crime. Foreign nationals detained in Iran. A court in Iran sentences a 64-year-old Irish-French tourist to six-and-a-half years in prison for spying for "an enemy ...