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Last year Europe experienced its joint warmest or second warmest year on record, depending on the dataset, while the average sea surface temperature across Europe was the warmest on record. The 2023 edition of the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s (C3S*) European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report, produced jointly with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for the first time, paints a sombre picture. Along with record temperatures came drier-than-average surface soil moisture, wildfires, droughts, and flooding. Here, we take a closer look at some of the main findings from ESOTC 2023. For a comprehensive review of the state of the climate in Europe, the Arctic, and globally in 2023, read the full report , or you can get a detailed snapshot in the ESOTC 2023 summary.