In 2022, data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service showed that the past eight years had been the eighth hottest ever recorded – suggesting that we’re only headed one way as global warming continues to worsen. With extreme weather becoming more common, more intense and more long-lasting due to the climate crisis, heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and heavy rains are proving deadlier by the day.

Click through for the most terrifying record-smashing weather events from the past two years driven by climate change...