June hottest on record, beating 2023 high

(UPDATE) PARIS — Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heatwaves.

Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.

«This is more than a statistical oddity, and it highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate,» said the service director, Carlo Buontempo.

Heatwave in Europe on July 25, 2019 with 40.4 °C degree Celsius temperature according to the KNMI weather bureau agency, setting the new national record for The Netherlands and the Dutch city Eindhoven as it was the hottest 23 of July and July generally until now, ever measured in the country. People in Eindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands looking for ways to cool down in the square, playing with the water of the fountain, holding and drinking from bottles of water, liquids or other beverages and staying at the shadow trying to hide from the sun and keep their daily life routine with the bicycles, although the traffic and people in public are reduced because of the hot climate. After a warning with an orange and a red alert today that was the hottest recorded day in Eindhoven surpassing the previous high point of 39.3 °C degrees of July 24, 2019 that was the breaking record after 75 years at Gilze-Rijen meteo meteorological station. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto) (Photo by Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

«Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm.» This was «inevitable» as long as humanity kept adding heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, he said.

The global average temperature notched last month broke the previous June record set in 2023.

The fresh high came at the midway point of a year marked by climate extremes.

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Scorching heat has blanketed swathes of the world from India to Saudi Arabia, the United States and Mexico in the first half of this year.

Relentless rain, a phenomenon scientists have also linked to a warmer