https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/06/world/warmest-june-global-record-climate/inde... Last month was the planet’s hottest June on record by a huge margin
Rachel Ramirez
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Updated 8:37 AM EDT, Thu July 6, 2023
Earth’s temperature was off the charts last month as an extreme heat wave scorched the Southern US and Mexico and ocean warmth soared to alarming levels, a new report shows.
The analysis from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that last month was the planet’s hottest June by a “substantial margin” above the previous record, which was set in 2019.
The nine hottest Junes have all occurred in the last nine years, according to the agency – evidence the human-caused climate crisis is driving temperatures to unprecedented levels.
Copernicus also found that ocean surface temperatures were the warmest on record for June, driven mainly by exceptional warmth in the North Atlantic and a strengthening El Niño in the Pacific.
Last month was the warmest June on record globally
Northwest Europe experienced record June temperatures, and parts of Canada, United States, Asia, and eastern Australia were much warmer than normal.
Global deviation from average temperature for each June since 1979