Disaster season: heat waves sweep the world – in charts and maps. Winter has faded extremely rapidly in Europe in the last two weeks and it has effectively skipped spring. In large parts of Europe it was hotter on April 7 than it usually gets in the middle of summer.

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1. Last year was the hottest on record, with most of the year posting temperatures of 1.5C above the long-term pre-industrial baseline. This year is going to be worse as temperature records around the world were smashed in the last week and the annual disaster seaason of extreme weather gets under way.
   By April 7 a total of 108 countries, almost half of the world’s nations, had broken monthly records. From Berlin to Phuket, city after city is recording all-time high temperatures as records tumble on a daily basis.
   As bne IntelliNews reported in February, climate alarm bells were already ringing loudly as planet entered uncharted territory in 2024, but now the feared problems are making themselves manifest in the form of roasting heatwaves coming far too early in the year.