Record heat in June: all-time global high broken
Environment — di Andrea Barolini
This year's month of June once again recorded record heat at a global level, according to data published by Noaa.
Record heat in June: all-time global high broken
This year's month of June once again recorded record heat at a global level, according to data published by Noaa.
A new record, yet another one. A new wake-up call for humanity, yet another one. This year's month of June was the hottest ever recorded on the globe since temperatures have been measured systematically, that is, since 1880.
The announcement was made by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), according to which the mercury on the surface of the oceans and landmasses stood at 0.9 degrees Celsius above the average of the last century, reaching 15.5. This is a value 0.02 degrees higher than the previous all-time record, which had been set in 2015.
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14 consecutive months of record heat
The thermometer also recorded heat records for the first six months of the current year, beating the same period in 2015 by 0.2 degrees, and surpassing the twentieth-century average by 1.05 degrees. June 2016 was then the fourteenth consecutive month in which an all-time high was recorded on Earth: this is the longest period of continuous growth in 137 years.