Earlier this week, NOAA released their climate summary for 2023. It shows that the United States had a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, including nine atmospheric river events in California, the wildfire in Maui, Hurricane Idalia, and droughts across the Mississippi Valley and other locations. You can read the NOAA News article at https://www.noaa.gov/news/us-struck-with-historic-number-of-billion-dollar-disasters-in-2023 and the summary at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202312. Maps are available at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/us-maps/. Overall, the Southeast was the second warmest since records began in 1895.
