In June, for the thirteenth consecutive month, Earth set a new monthly temperature record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the climate monitoring component of the European Space Programme, reported today.
June was generally warmer than any previous June on record, with the average surface air temperature reaching 16.66°C, 0.67°C above the 1991–2020 average for that month and 0.14°C above the previous month. The maximum is set for June 2023.
“June marks the 13th consecutive month that global temperatures have set records and the 12th consecutive month to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,” said Carlo Buontempo, Director of C3S.
“This goes beyond a statistical rarity and highlights the ongoing and ongoing change in our climate,” he added.
Although unusual, a similar series of monthly global temperature records occurred in 2015/2016.
On the other hand, this year’s June was 1.5°C warmer than the average June estimated for the pre-industrial reference period of 1850-1900.
Thus, the global average temperature over the past 13 months was the highest on record, at 0.76°C above the 1991-2020 average and 1.64°C above the pre-industrial average of 1850-1900.
In Europe, this June was the second hottest on record, with temperatures 1.57°C above the 1991-2020 average.
In other geographic regions, above-average temperatures were recorded in Mexico, Brazil, the western United States, eastern Canada, northern Siberia, the Middle East, northern Africa, and West Antarctica.
In contrast, temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific were below average, indicating that a La Niña weather phenomenon is developing.
