European scientists make it official. July was the hottest month on record

Now that July’s sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organisation made it official: July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin.July’s global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius was a third of a degree Celsius (six tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service, a division of the European Union’s space programme, announced Tuesday.