For the 13th month in a row, a global heat record has been noted. June became the warmest June month ever measured on Earth, according to the EU's climate service Copernicus.
The average temperature was 16.6 degrees, which is 0.67 degrees warmer than the average for the month during 1991-2000 and 0.14 degrees warmer than the previous June record from last year.
It is the twelfth month in a row that the global temperature reaches or exceeds 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level.