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This is not only due to climate change, but to a natural climate phenomenon: El Niño. The changed flow in the Pacific off the west coast of Latin America, which occurs on average every four years and has a warming effect on the global climate, could drive temperatures to new record highs in 2023 and 2024, experts from the World Weather Organization (WMO) warn in their current climate status report.
The consequences for Central Europe would be dramatic. Some experts are already fearing even more extreme heat waves than in the summer of 2022, when the highest warning level applied in a number of places and all heat records were broken. In some cases, this resulted in fires and extreme drought that lasted for months. We will know by June/July at the latest.
Source: Nachrichten
