Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.
We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.
NOAA actually says 62% chance La Niña later this year.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml
I think I may have been looking at older data without realizing it, my bad, thanks for the correction.