Weather & Science
July Was the Hottest Month on Record
- Antarctic sea ice shrank to lowest July level on observation
- EU climate agency warns of “dire consequences” as heat worsens
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July was officially Earth’s hottest month on record, causing the Antarctic to shrink at a record pace and the European Union’s earth observation agency to warn of “dire consequences” as extreme weather events grow more frequent and more intense.
Global average temperatures rose above the previous record set in July 2019 by “the unusually large margin” of 0.33C, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Going back further, this July was 0.72C warmer than the 1991 to 2020 July average and about 1.5C warmer than the average for 1850 to 1900.