Will Florida have a hot summer 2023?

S?everal Florida cities also rewrote their summer heat record books in 2023, including Key West, Miami, Pensacola and Sarasota. While Tampa fell just short of their record summer, they've now had their four hottest summers all within the past four years.



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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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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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An extraordinary run of global temperature records means that 2023 is now “virtually certain” to be the warmest year ever logged, according to the EU's climate change service.

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Summer 2023 was Florida's hottest on record — here's where the Tampa Bay area ranked. Several Florida regions set temperature records this summer, and the Tampa Bay area was among the hottest.

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Climate change in Europe has resulted in an increase in temperature of 2.3 °C (2022) in Europe compared to pre-industrial levels. Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world. Europe's climate is getting warmer due to anthropogenic activity.

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Notably, all ocean basins have been experiencing significant warming since 1998, with more heat being transferred deeper into the ocean since 1990. To date, the ocean contains 90 percent of the heat from human-induced global warming, and the year 2022 was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean.

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