Global climate crisis: extreme weather records just broken
Hannah Foster-Roe
08 August 2023
Not the records you want to break
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Ongoing historic drought in the Horn of Africa
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Record rains in Seoul, South Korea
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Worst flooding in Pakistan for at least a decade
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The UK’s highest-recorded temperature
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Europe’s driest summer in 500 years
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Warmest January ever in at least eight European countries
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Western Australia’s worst ever floods
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The Southern Hemisphere’s costliest tropical cyclone ever
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Heaviest rainfall in Brazil’s history
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The most accumulated cyclone energy
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Mississippi’s deadliest tornado in over a decade
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Southeast Asia’s hottest ever heatwave
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Most extreme heat dome ever in the southern US
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Record streak of extremely high temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona
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Europe’s largest recorded hailstone
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China’s hottest ever day
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First-of-its-kind marine heatwave in the North Atlantic
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The world’s hottest day ever
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The planet’s hottest month on record
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Beijing’s heaviest rainfall in 140 years
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Earth’s hottest September and October on record
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Malawi’s hottest ever weekend
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Historic drought in Manaus, Brazil
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