2023 Expected to Be Hottest Year on Record

By  Katharina Buchholz – Statista

With full December data still outstanding, 2023 has already qualified as the globe’s hottest year on record due to temperatures well above the average between June and November. USA Today reports that official hottest-year announcements from NASA, NOAA and Copernicus Climate Change Service will follow in the coming weeks. For example, September 2023 was 1.43° C (2.57° F) hotter than the 20th century average temperature. Second-placed September 2020 was just 0.98° C (1.76° F) hotter.