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Get ready for sev­er­al years of even more record-break­ing heat that push­es Earth to more dead­ly, fiery and un­com­fort­able ex­tremes, two of the world’s top weath­er agen­cies fore­cast.

There’s an 80% chance the world will break an­oth­er an­nu­al tem­per­a­ture record in the next five years, and it’s even more prob­a­ble that the world will again ex­ceed the in­ter­na­tion­al tem­per­a­ture thresh­old set 10 years ago, ac­cord­ing to a five-year fore­cast re­leased Wednes­day by the World Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Or­ga­ni­za­tion and the U.K. Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Of­fice.

“High­er glob­al mean tem­per­a­tures may sound ab­stract, but it trans­lates in re­al life to a high­er chance of ex­treme weath­er: stronger hur­ri­canes, stronger pre­cip­i­ta­tion, droughts,” said Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty cli­mate sci­en­tist Na­tal­ie Ma­howald, who wasn’t part of the cal­cu­la­tions but said they made sense. “So high­er glob­al mean tem­per­a­tures trans­lates to more lives lost.”