He said: “Our long-range forecasts now suggest that this run of La Niña winters is likely to end later this year, raising the prospect of even higher global temperatures.”Professor Adam Scaife is a Principal Fellow and Head of Monthly to Decadal Prediction at the Met Office.He said: “Our long-range forecasts now suggest that this run of La Niña winters is likely to end later this year, raising the prospect of even higher global temperatures.”The Met Office global temperature forecast for 2023 is here.Other data setsThe World Meteorological Organization uses six international data sets to provide an authoritative assessment of global temperature change.They report 2022 was around 1.15 ± 0.13°C warmer than the 1850-1900 baseline based on an average of the six data sets.Unless we can take action that slows this rate of warming, the world’s climate will reach 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels within the next 15 years.”Global warming and other long-term climate change trends are expected to continue as a result of record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."