It’s official: Jul was hottest month on record
It wasn’t your imagination. Jul was in fact a hottest month ever.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that Jul was a hottest month on record, with tellurian temperatures averaging 62.13 degrees, that is 1.71 degrees above a 20th century average.
This Jul bested Jul 2016 for a hottest month on record by .05 degrees. Records date to 1880.
The areas that had a many important departures from their normal Jul temperatures were Alaska, executive Europe, northern and southwestern tools of Asia, and tools of Africa and Australia.
The record-warmth shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to ancestral lows, according to NOAA.
Nine of a 10 hottest Julys have occurred given 2005, and a final 5 have been a hottest Julys ever.
Last month, a NOAA pronounced that Jun was a hottest Jun on record, with normal temperatures leading those of Jun 2016. This Jul was a 415th uninterrupted month with above-average tellurian temperatures, according to NOAA.
Summer 2019 has been toasty worldwide.
Europe sweated by an heated Jun feverishness wave, and a third week of Jul brought a feverishness call in a Midwest and Northeast, with temperatures in cities such as New York City; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Memphis, Tennessee, climbing toward a triple digits.
Just after that, western Europe gifted a feverishness call that also pushed temps above 100, violation countless inhabitant records.
This year is so distant tied with 2017 as a second-hottest year to date on record. The hottest full year on record was 2016. Scientists envision 2019 will really make a top-five hottest years, and will many expected finish adult a second hottest year on record.