July was the hottest month EVER recorded on Earth scientists say

August 6, 2019

JULY was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, scientists have revealed.

In Europe, Africa and the US, temperatures were at least 7C higher than recorded in 1901-1930.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) found July 2019 was marginally higher than July 2016, the last record holder.

In 2016, the record was set after an El Ninio phenomena took place, which made temperatures across the world dramatically higher.

Despite this, C3S found last month was 0.004C warmer, and an El Nino event did not take place.

Sweltering temperatures were recorded all over the world, with Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the UK breaking national temperature records on July 25.

Paris saw temperatures hit a sizzling 42.6C.

This is entirely consistent with the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by human activities

The Met Office said it took a recording of 38.7C at Cambridge Botanic Garden, officially the highest temperature recorded in the UK.

Temperatures over Alaska, Greenland, parts of Siberia, swathes of Antarctica, the central Asian republics and Iran, were also "particularly high compared to the 1981-2010 average", C3S said.

Parts of the US suffered record-breaking hot conditions.

And in Siberia, Russia, Wildfires struck areas of Siberia in Russia in July, with the plumes of smoke visible from space.

July is not alone in being hot, with all the months of 2019 so far ranking among the four warmest for their time of year.

Jean-Noël Thépaut, head of the Copernicus program, said: "While July is usually the warmest month of the year for the globe, according to our data it also was the warmest month recorded globally by a very small margin."

"With continued greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting impact on global temperatures, records will continue to be broken in the future," he added.

Figures come after June 2019 was noted as the hottest June on record.

TIP OF THE ICEBERG

The planet is also headed for its hottest five successive years on record, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday.

"This year alone we have seen temperature records shatter from New Delhi to Anchorage from Paris to Santiago from Adelaide to the Arctic Circle.

"If we do not take action on climate change now, these extreme weather events are just the tip of the iceberg."

The world has already heated up by about 1C, mainly due to human activities that burn fossil fuels for energy.

Temperatures on Earth – where gets the hottest?

Here are the need-to-know facts about our planet's toastiest spots…

The highest temperature ever recorded in Britain is 38.5°C, in Faversham, Kent on August 10, 2003
Britain is largely cool for all consituent countries, too – Scotland (32.9°C), Wales (35.2°C), Northern Ireland (30.8°C)
The highest temperature ever recorded globally was 56.7°C in Furnace Creek, California on July 10, 1913
Europe's highest temperature was 47.4°C in Amaereleja, Portugal on August 1, 2003
The hottest it got in Oceania was in Australia, which recorded a toasty 50.7°C in Oodnadatta on January 2, 1960
For South America, the top temperature was in Rivadavia, Argentina, where the mercury got to 48.9°C on December 11, 1905
Asia's highest temperature is 54°C, and is shared between Iran, Israel and Kuwait
For Africa, the hottest temperature was 55°C in Kebili, Tunisia on July 7, 1931
In Antarctica, researchers tracked a peak temperature of 19.8°C at Signy Research Station in the South Orkney Islands on January 30, 1982
But the highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole was a chilly -12.3°C on December 25, 2011
The greatest two-minute temperature increase ever recorded was from -20°C to 7°C (a rise of 27°C) in Spearfish, South Dakota on January 22, 1943
The highest minimum temperature for a 24-hour period was 42.6°C at Qarayyat, Oman on June 25, 2018
And the highest average monthly temperature was in Death Valley, California, at 42.3°C for July 2018

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