Is 2023 predicted to be a hot summer?

Analyses with other temperature data — from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, among others — have also shown more than a 50 percent chance that 2023 will be the warmest on record. At the end of June, the nonprofit Berkeley Earth forecast an 81 percent chance of a record 2023.



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The summer of 2023 was Earth's hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

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1. Florida: Sunshine and Sweltering Heat. Florida, the Sunshine State, tops the list of the hottest states in the US with an average temperature of 71.5°F (21.9°C).

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They predict that in three decades, more than 100 million Americans will live in an “extreme heat belt” where at least one day a year, the heat index temperature will exceed 125° Fahrenheit (52° Celsius) — the top level of the National Weather Service's heat index, or the extreme danger level.

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Next year is likely to be even hotter. “We're anticipating that not only is 2023 going to be possibly a record warm year, but we anticipate that 2024 will be warmer still,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

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The scorching summer of 2023 reaches 'mind-blowing' high temperatures. Death Valley hit 129°F (120°F at night), China set its all-time heat record, and a heatwave continues to roast Europe.

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June-August 2023 was also the Northern Hemisphere's hottest meteorological summer on record, at 2.59 degrees F (1.44 degrees C) above average. The season, which also marks the Southern Hemisphere's winter, was the Southern Hemisphere's warmest winter on record at 1.53 degrees F (0.85 of a degree C) above average.

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