Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn

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https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-deadly-record-heat-wildfires-hurricanes-535b4df63b476d0f36ec553a1a78669d

Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 6:46 AM CDT, May 28, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast.

There’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago, according to a five-year forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.K. Meteorological Office.

“Higher global mean temperatures may sound abstract, but it translates in real life to a higher chance of extreme weather: stronger hurricanes, stronger precipitation, droughts,” said Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald, who wasn’t part of the calculations but said they made sense. “So higher global mean temperatures translates to more lives lost.”

With every tenth of a degree the world warms from human-caused climate change “we will experience higher frequency and more extreme events (particularly heat waves but also droughts, floods, fires and human-reinforced hurricanes/typhoons),” emailed Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. He was not part of the research.

And for the first time there’s a chance — albeit slight — that before the end of the decade, the world’s annual temperature will shoot past the Paris climate accord goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) and hit a more alarming 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of heating since the mid-1800s, the two agencies said.

There’s an 86% chance that one of the next five years will pass 1.5 degrees and a 70% chance that the five years as a whole will average more than that global milestone, they figured.

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Trump will demand that all top weather forecasters be fired

[usonian]

1. Starts this weekend in California.

Hydrate

[FirstLight]

7. yep, just saw the warning...

110 through the entire central valley...and up into OR.

This is why I still live at altitude! At 6000' it's only gonna hit the 80s... Used to be it NEVER hit 90 in Tahoe, now it's definitely happening more often and for longer stretches. I'm worried about the fire season for sure...
We had a good wet winter, not a lot of snowpack in the mid elevations... but that means more undergrowth and weeds too.

...and with the layoffs in the USFS, there will be less oversight with the stupid tourists that try to build fires and camp in weird places

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Trump

Hates hearing things that he does not want to hear. Scientists telling the truth he will fire them the fucking traitor trump

[Nigrum Cattus]

3. "several years" my ass

We are in the 6th mass extinction -
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/

[FirstLight]

8. yeah...Earth will be fine, it will adapt without us :(

But it still sucks that we're the reason for all this ...

[Ponietz]

4. "Several years" they joked

[CrispyQ]

5. Humanity's about to get knocked down a few pegs.

But tell me again how rich, mostly-white men deserve to be in charge because they're so superior to the rest of us. JFC.

[Xavier Breath]

6. I have every confidence that we will blow right by that 2 degrees Celsius mark without (ironically) breaking a sweat.