The analysis of global temperatures for November have come out, and it was another record warm month for the planet.
The different agencies that analyze global temperatures rated November 2023 as the warmest on record, and by a large margin.
Historically, the warmest El Niño temperatures occur during the second El Niño year, which would mean 2024 could see more record-breaking global heat.
Here are some global weather highlights for 2023:
- More wind, rain, flooding ahead for storm-battered California.
- Antarctica set record low sea ice extent.
- Europe records second warmest winter on record.
- California receives record winter rains and snows to help alleviate drought conditions.
- Spain records second warmest and driest March on record.
- Global temperatures second warmest on record.
- Southern Hemisphere records its second warmest April on record.
- Europe records its third driest January to April period on record.
- Global ocean temperatures set a record high in April, second highest ocean temperatures for any month.
- Several hundred wildfires break out over Canada, burning more than six million acres and causing widespread smoke.
- South America and North America record their warmest May on record.
- Global temperatures break the 1.5C global warming threshold.
- Third consecutive month of record high global surface ocean temperatures recorded.
- Record-breaking North Atlantic Ocean temperatures contribute to extreme marine heatwaves.
- Second warmest July in North America, warmest July in South America, and greatest anomaly of any month on record.
- Multiple global temperature records broken.
- Recorded as the warmest month in Earth’s recent history.
- Record high global sea surface temperatures continue.
- North America had the warmest August and summer on record and South America had the warmest August and warmest June to August on record.
- Hong Kong reports warmest August and summer on record.
- Antarctic sea ice sees fifth consecutive record-low month and record-low maximum.
- Europe records warmest September on record.
- Seventh consecutive month of record-breaking global ocean surface temperatures.
- South America sees another record warm month.
- Year on track to become the warmest year after record October.
- Global temperature exceeds 2C above pre-industrial average on Nov. 17.
- North America, Europe, Asia and Japan all record warmest autumn on record.
- Global ocean surface temperatures continue record highs.
- Record warm November consolidates 2023 as the warmest year.
As you can see, most of the big weather stories of 2023 globally have to do with extreme heat in one form or another.
