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Scorching October puts 2023 on track to be hottest year in 125,000 years

A boy cools off in a fountain in Budapest, Hungary, during a heatwave on August 26, 2023 [Martin Meissner/AP Photo]

European scientists say 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record after temperatures soared across the planet in October.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU’s climate monitor, said on Wednesday that October was 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than the previous record for the month, set in 2019.

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