EU/Copernicus Notes July 2019 As Hottest Month In Instrumental Record; NASA/NOAA Data Pending
With temperatures soaring in Europe and Alaska, ice melting in Greenland and forests burning across Siberia, last month seemed like a blistering one worldwide. It was.
European climate researchers said Monday that last month was the hottest July — and thus the hottest month — ever recorded, slightly eclipsing the previous record-holder, July 2016. “While July is usually the warmest month of the year for the globe, according to our data it also was the warmest month recorded globally, by a very small margin,” Jean-Noël Thépaut, head of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement.
The service, part of an intergovernmental organization supported by European countries, said the global average temperature last month was about 0.07 degree Fahrenheit (0.04 Celsius) hotter than July 2016.
The researchers noted that their finding was based on analysis of only one of several data sets compiled by agencies around the world. Analyses by other agencies, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States, will be released over the next several weeks and could be slightly different.
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