Orange with 6Medias published Tuesday 17 January 2023 at 18:55
Meteorologists fear exceptionally high temperatures around the world in 2023 and 2024, TF1 reports this Tuesday, January 17.
The likely return of El Niño is worrying all climatologists. This oceanic phenomenon, warming the waters of the Pacific, could indeed cause historic heatwaves around the world in 2023 and 2024, our colleagues at TF1 warn Tuesday, January 17.
El Niño was already the origin of the 2016 all-time high temperature record, 1.2°C higher than the pre-industrial era.
In the coming months, global warming could this time reach the very worrying +1.5°C mark, reports The Guardian. According to Adam Scaife, head of forecasting at the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, this +1.5°C threshold has “a 50 per cent chance of being breached in the next five years”.
forest fires and floods
“With climate change, the impact of El Niño events will increase,” warns British daily Adam Scaife, which predicts “unprecedented heat waves during the next El Niño” in 2023-2024. Australia and Indonesia would be directly affected by warming water. Drought periods and forest fires could therefore increase. Conversely, the United States and East African countries would be at risk of flooding. New disasters are therefore to be feared after a year 2022, the hottest ever observed in France, particularly characterized by exceptional meteorological phenomena.