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A major heat wave affected the Midwestern United States on August 23 and 24. Prior to the heat wave, 126 million Americans were under heat alerts. [134] At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, temperatures hit 98 °F (37 °C) on August 23, with a heat index reaching 116 °F (47 °C). On August 24, temperatures hit 100 °F (38 °C) at O'Hare ...
But Otto said her team was overwhelmed with more than 160 of those in 2023, and could only conduct 14 studies, many of them on killer heat waves. “Basically every heat wave that is occurring ...
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 . The several weather events which had a significant impact were blizzards , cold waves , droughts , heat waves , wildfires , floods , tornadoes , and ...
The heat wave has caused many deaths due to heat stroke and has prompted health warnings and power outages across multiple countries. A May study by the World Weather Attribution found that the heat wave was made at least 30 times more likely by climate change in India and Bangladesh, and that climate change raised temperatures by at least 2 ...
Even as 2023 draws to a close, the extraordinary heat shows little sign of letting up. China saw more than 12 monthly temperature records broken on Monday, with temperatures reaching 34 degrees ...
September felt more like an abnormally hot July with an average global air temperature of 16.38 degrees Celsius (61.45 Fahrenheit), making the month 0.93 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991 to ...
Historically, global heat records tend to topple in El Niño years, and the current record-holder, 2016, coincided with a strong El Niño. In May, a Berkeley Earth analysis put the chances of 2023 ...
The heat wave entailed wildfires in Alberta, record temperatures across Canada and the US, and over 100 deaths in Mexico. The heat also accelerated snow melt in mountain ranges, causing flooding and mudslides. According to scientists, climate change increased the strength of the 2023 heatwaves including in North America. [3] [4] [5]