Eight charts illustrate 2023’s extreme weather
Will 2024 be worse?
RECORD-BREAKING temperatures can fail to impress these days. The past nine years, one after the other, have been the hottest ever recorded. But even against this background, 2023 was remarkable. Climate researchers are calling last year’s events “weird” and say they will be untangling what exactly drove its remarkable extremes for months or even years to come.
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