Severe Abnormal Climate: "Last Year Was the Hottest Globally, This Year Is Even Hotter"

"This Year Is Even Hotter" Observation

The year 2023 is expected to be recorded as one of the hottest years worldwide. However, there are growing predictions that this year will be even hotter.

Last year, France's average annual temperature was recorded at 14.4℃, making it the second hottest year since weather observations began, the French Meteorological Agency announced on the 5th (local time). The hottest year was 2022.

The photo shows the view of Paris on the 3rd.
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The Meteorological Agency confirmed, "Following 2022, which was the hottest year since the early 20th century, 2023 will be recorded as the second hottest year in France." They added, "Last month was also much warmer than usual. Mild temperatures were almost universal, and frost was rarely seen on the plains."

The prolonged heatwave was cited as a major cause.

2023, The Hottest Year... "This Year Will Be Even Hotter"

Although 2023 was the second hottest year ever recorded in France, it is predicted to be the hottest year globally.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union's climate monitoring agency, announced the temperature analysis from January to October last year, stating that it is "virtually certain" that 2023 will be the hottest year since the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

Since the El Ni?o phenomenon, one of the causes that raised global temperatures last year, is continuing, some meteorologists predict that this year will be even hotter. Both 2016, the hottest year on record, and last year, which is expected to surpass it, experienced El Ni?o.

The UK Met Office forecasted on the 8th of last month that following 2023, 2024 will also be the hottest year on record, with the global average temperature potentially rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time.

Domestic Average Temperature Also Breaks Previous Records

Last year, South Korea's national average temperature was 13.7 degrees Celsius, the highest since observations began in 1973. This is 0.8 degrees higher than the previous year. Every month from January to December was warmer than average, marking the first time this has happened since records began. Among these, March and September were the hottest months ever recorded.

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