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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 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]
September 2023 was the warmest September on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.5 °C above the temperature of the previous warmest September (2020). [140] During mid-April 2023, heat waves occurred in several countries in South Asia, Indochina, and parts of China. In what has been described as the "worst April heatwave ...
Between October 2023 and March 2024, the UK experienced the second-wettest such period on record. ... Hotter, longer heatwaves. Even a small increase in average temperatures makes a big difference ...
In the coming years and decades, we expect it to get warmer and warmer and so to have even more heatwaves, for prolonged periods of time."With no rain and soaring temperaturesauthorities are ...
A whopping 6.3 billion people worldwide experienced at least 31 days of extreme heat since mid-2023. As the climate crisis drives more extreme and frequent heatwaves in the US and around the world ...
2023's June-July-August season was the warmest on record globally by a large margin, as El Niño conditions continued to develop. [16] September 2023 was the warmest September on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.5 °C above the temperature of the previous warmest September (2020). [17]
2023 European heatwaves; P. 2023 Pakistan heat wave This page was last edited on 21 May 2023, at 11:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...