Scorching! Scientists confirm July as the hottest month on record
Vanassa McKenzie / Our Today
As citizens globally continue to grapple with heat stress due to a surge in global temperatures, scientists have confirmed that the month of July was the hottest month on record.
In a report today, August 8, the Copernicus Climate Change Services (C3S), a European centre that provides information on medium to range weather forecasts, confirmed July to be the hottest month on record, with several daily temperatures being broken.
According to the C3S data, the daily global mean surface air temperature was broken four times in a row between July 3 to 6.
Daily temperatures continued to surge throughout the rest of the month amounting to a monthly average of 16.9 degrees Celsius, surpassing the record 16.65 degrees Celsius set in July 2019.
“During the first and third weeks of the month, temperatures also exceeded the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold above pre-industrial level, a limit set in the Paris Agreement, the first time this has happened in July,” C3S said.
Last month, the C3S predicted July to be the hottest month on record after the daily average global mean surface air surface temperature for July 6, was recorded as the hottest day on record, surpassing the record set in August 2016.
The climate experts said that an extended period of high sea surface temperatures has contributed to July being documented as the hottest month on record.
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