2024: Hottest Year, Extreme Weather

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How a week of weather extremes upended the lives of millions of Americans

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Climate change is causing more frequent blasts of intense cold in winter even as global temperatures heat up overall, scientists say.

The Palisades Fire in the Santa Monica mountains and the Sunset Fire in Los Angeles are the worst-ever wildfires.

2024 will be the hottest year in global history, four of the six weather monitoring agencies say.

" The last week of weird weather has been alarming," a scientist says.

2024 was the first year with a global average that broke the long-term warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius ( 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) that was set as a goal by the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Extreme weather like this week 's is "affecting so many more people all at one time," says Barbara Hofer , a professor emerita of psychology at Middlebury College .

Hofer said she thinks that will be harder, at least in the U.S. , as Trump takes office.

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