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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 ...
The global weather phenomenon El Niño, in which surface waters are abnormally warm in the eastern tropical Pacific, was a major player in many of the top weather events in 2023.
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]
In the hottest year on record, the fingerprints of a changing climate in a warming world were all over dozens of extreme weather events in 2023. ... but after a summer of endless heat, no tropical ...
The extreme heat resulted in 569 deaths in Phoenix. [21] The summer heat wave resulted in Texas experiencing its second hottest summer on record in 2023, with the full year being its hottest on record. Over 300 people died from heat in Texas in 2023, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989. [22]
(Reuters) - Extreme weather featured in headlines frequently in 2023. Drought dried up lakes, record heat sparked wildfires, rains turned streets into rivers, and deadly storms wiped out entire towns.
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
On 26 July 2023, the World Meteorological Organization station in Agia Triada recorded 46.1 °C (115.0 °F) making it the highest temperature in the country for that day. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] Throughout the prolonged heat wave, wildfires devastated parts of the country, killing at least 28 people, [ 52 ] mostly in the Athens metropolitan area and Rhodes .