This year's July month was at 16.68 degrees, which was 0.45 degrees above the average between the years 1991 and 2020. When the latest measurements are now presented, this year's July month ends up right after the 2023 and 2024.
"Two years after the warmest July in history, the string of global temperature records has been broken - for the time being. But that does not mean that climate change has ceased. We continue to witness the effects of a warmer world in the form of extreme heat and floods", says Carlo Buontempo, head of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, in a press release.
In July, Pakistan and northern China were hit by heavy rainfall and flooding. At the same time, Scotland and Greece were struggling with wildfires after a long period of drought. Also in Asia and Scandinavia, unusually high average temperatures for the month were recorded, in several places record-high. In among other things Turkey, the record temperature of 50.5 degrees was measured.
According to Copernicus, this year's July temperature was globally 1.25 degrees higher than the levels before industrialization.
