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The latest weather updates as heatwaves and flooding cause disruption across the globe. Europe is bracing for a new anticyclone dubbed Charon, a heat dome is hanging over the US, China has recorded its highest ever temperature and bodies have been pulled from a tunnel in South Korea.
The past eight years were the warmest on record globally, fuelled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat, according to six leading international temperature datasets consolidated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The average global temperature in 2022 was about 1.15 [1.02 to 1.27] °C above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) levels. 2022 is the 8th