Since June 2023, each month has broken its global temperature record since records began. With a global average temperature of 16.91°C, the month of July was only 0.04°C cooler than the previous year, the European laboratory Copernicus announced on Thursday August 8. The data published in the laboratory’s latest monthly report thus testify to the end of a worrying 13-month series during which the El Niño phenomenon amplified the effects of global warming caused by human activities.
With average global temperatures exceeding the average for a month of July over the period 1850-1900 by 1.48°C, this 2024 edition also puts an end to a series of 12 consecutive months spent above the limit of 1, 5°C, a limit which must not be exceeded sustainably by 2100 to remain within the limits of the Paris Agreement.
In Europe, the average temperature exceeded those recorded over the period 1991-2020 by 1.49°C. “Temperatures were most above average in southern and eastern Europe,” Copernicus specifies. Overall, “the western United States, western Canada, most of Africa, the Middle East and Asia and eastern Antarctica” experienced the highest temperatures compared to the average.
It should also be noted that, although July 2024 was very slightly less warm than its equivalent in 2023, it was this year that the hottest average temperature ever recorded on a single day on the globe was recorded. Twice in fact: 17.16°C and 17.15°C on July 22 and 23.
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