Abnormal heat in the world

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ABNORMAL HEAT IN THE
WORLD
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On March 5, the average temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean was 19.9 °C,
exceeding the record for this day set in 2020 by 0.1 °C. For the next three months,
it remained significantly higher than normal, on June 11 it already exceeded the
record value by 0.5 °C, amounting to 22.7 °C.
In early March, a heat wave caused abnormally high temperatures in most of
Greenland, more than 20 °C above the climatic norm. On March 5, a
temperature of 15.2 °C was recorded in Nuuk (the capital of Greenland), a
record not only for March, but also for April (the norm for this time of year is -5 °)
March

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April
A heat wave originating in North Africa caused
abnormally high temperatures in the western
Mediterranean between April 26 and 28. In Morocco
and Algeria, the temperature in some places
exceeded 40 °C, the weather station at Cordoba
airport recorded a temperature of 38.8 °C. On April 26,
the Sentinel-2 satellite captured the first case of
complete drying of Lake Fuente de Piedra.
Abnormally hot weather was also observed in a number
of Asian countries, in particular in Bangladesh, India,
China, Laos and Thailand.
On April 15, a record temperature was recorded for the
whole of Thailand — 45.4 °C, at least 44 people died
from the abnormal heat in the country in April. Also on
this day, a record temperature was recorded for the
capital of Bangladesh — 40.6 °C. Record values were
also observed in a number of cities in Laos, including
the capital, as well as in India.

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May
Main article: Heat wave in North America
In May, an abnormal heat wave was observed in the
western part of North America, although it was inferior to
a similar phenomenon in 2021. High temperatures
caused wildfires in the Canadian province of Alberta,
842 k. hectares of forest burned down by May 20. In the
USA, temperature records (above 30 °C) were broken in
a number of cities in Washington and Oregon.

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June
A heatwave in Israel in early June with temperatures ranging from 35 °C to 45 °C
combined with strong winds led to hundreds of fires and power outages.
As a result of an abnormal heat wave reaching 50 °C and caused by a series of
heat waves, more than 100 people died in the Mexican state of Sonora from June
12 to 25.
In general, June 2023 became the hottest in the entire history of observations, the
highest temperature extremes were in the northwestern part of Europe, in North
America, in a number of Asian countries and in eastern Australia, in Siberia the
temperature reached almost +40 °C and at several Omsk weather stations.
Kemerovo, Novosibirsk regions and Altai at once exceeded +39, exceeding the
norm by 15 °C. A report by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change
Service, which works closely with the World Meteorological Organization, showed
that June 2023 was 0.53° above the 1991-2020 average, beating the previous
record of June 2019. At the same time, in some regions, for example in the west of
Russia, June was cooler than usual.