I dunno. We had a nasty spell--over100°F at Newark Airport--back around 1990 or so.
Remember, we measure temperature in 100s of thousands of places, but most of them have had measurements for less than 80 years, and very few places had reliable measurents before 150 years ago. Just on that basis, we'd expect a few record temperatures on any given day somewhere.
So many of the alarmist predictions have failed to happen. The seas did not boil away in 1988. Deserts are shrinking, not increasing, because plants can get more CO2 while losing less water. C3 food plant yields are up worldwide. (C4 plants cannot benefit as much.)
And look at what governments are trying to do. The Netherlands is shutting down farmers. The UK is planning to. Ignorant people think that grazing land can support crops instead. If it could, crops would already be planted there. Grazing land is suitable for grass, though after decades of fertilization by cattle waste, it may be able to support wheat.
Most famines today are the result of war or government mismanagement. (Most. Not all.) Most droughts could have been managed with planning; ditto most floods, including those you don't hear about because they were managed. Some projects were stopped by Greens who consider every acre sacred, and care less for human life, or the measures that raise human life above "nasty, brutish, and short."
