In 2023, absolute temperature records were updated in countries such as Albania, Brazil, China, Thailand https://en.veles-club.com/projects/thailand/ and Turkey https://en.veles-club.com/projects/turkiye/, as well as in a number of cities, including Milan, Valencia, Dhaka. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the summer of 2023 was the hottest since the beginning of observations, 0.66 °C exceeding the average value for this time of year and 0.3 °C breaking the previous record set in 2019. On July 4, 2023, the highest average surface temperature of +17.18 °C was recorded since the beginning of observations (1979)