Just in: Jacobabad in Pakistan recorded 49.0C today, this is the new 2023 highest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere, as forecast last week by your author.

Fortunately It won't get much higher though,we are far from the brutal levels of May 2010 (53.5C Moen Jo Daro).

https://nitter.moomoo.me/extremetemps/status/1660262186676113410#m