According to climate scientists, July is expected to be the hottest month on record worldwide and potentially the warmest in 120,000 years.
“We don’t need to wait until the end of the month to confirm this. Unless there is a sudden drastic change in weather, July 2023 will break all records,” stated UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday.
This prediction comes as heatwaves have affected large areas of Europe, North Africa, North America, and Asia.
The first three weeks of July have already been recorded as the warmest period compared to the average temperatures of the first 23 days of July from 1940 to 2023.
This surpasses the previous record set in 2019 for the entire month of July, with a surface air temperature of 16.95C (62.51F) compared to 16.63C (61.93F).
During the first and third weeks, temperatures briefly exceeded the 1.5C (34.7F) limit established in the Paris Agreement.
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