The weather was bound to be bad in 2024, the hottest year on Earth out of the last 125,000 of them.
How to describe 2023 in two words? Global boiling: Forget “rizz” — these words characterized the hottest year ever Heatflation, overshoot, soup throwers: 10 terms and phrases that defined our sweltering climate in 2022 Code red, glacier blood, megadrought: The defining words of 2021 Anthropause, ghost flights, spillover: Only a pandemic could bring words like these Birth strike, flygskam, Pyrocene: And we thought things couldn’t get worse Firenado, hothouse, smokestorm: The year fires went wild Hotumn, meatmares, ecoanxiety: Oh, how young we all were then
In Saudi Arabia, temperatures climbed above 125 degrees Fahrenheit during the Hajj in June, killing 1,300 people on their annual pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. Across the Arabian Sea, a prolonged heat wave led to hundreds more deaths in southern Pakistan. Hurricane Helene brought 30 inches of rain to an already-waterlogged western North Carolina in September, filling mountain valleys ... Read more
