It was not as warm as the record years 2023 and 2024, but still 1.29 degrees above the pre-industrial average, which is an estimate for the temperature during the period 1850–1900.
The average temperature in Europe was 19.46 degrees and in southwestern Europe, the month brought the third major heat wave of the summer with extensive forest fires as a result.
"Since the world's oceans are also unusually warm, these events highlight not only the urgency of reducing emissions, but also the acute need to adapt to more frequent and intense climate disasters," says Samantha Burgess from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in a press release.
