July 2024 was the second hottest July on record which
ends a 13 month streak of record breaking high temperatures
. That's according to the Eu's Copernicus climate change service
on Wednesday, the month was 2.7°F above the
pre industrial average still high but also short of July
in 2023 beginning June last year, the streak saw
each month become the hottest on record since 1940 Copernicus
links high temperatures mainly to greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels
. Julian Nicholas is a scientist with the service and
pointed out that the recent streak went beyond the El
Nino phenomenon. I think that that's really something to
keep in mind. It was the district of record
of, of global temperature record was in part related
to development and and uh of the El Nino event
um in, in the Pacific, let's come to
an end. But there is also other part of
the world that are still very warm, much,
much warmer than, than average. And and again
, the consequences of climate change will continue to be
felt even beyond the end of the, the recent
streaks of global temperature records. So that's really the
context that we need to keep in mind above average
temperatures were seen around the globe in Southern and eastern
Europe, the western us Western Canada, as well
as Africa, the Middle East Asia and Eastern Antarctica
. Ocean Surface temperatures also stayed unusually high in many
areas. But it's still surprising at this time in
, as we speak in early August uh is the
very record near record levels of sea surface temperature.
Global sea surface temperature. We are slightly below what
we were a year ago.