This past July was amongst the warmest of Julys on record globally, with extreme heat, drought and wildfires in most parts of the world with some floods, despite a weak La Nina event, which is supposed to have a cooling influence, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a Geneva-based UN agency, said Tuesday.
The Antarctic ice was the lowest ever recorded for July.
Surface temperatures recorded during the month were close to 0.4℃ above the average recorded in the past 30 years, between 1991-2020, across much of Europe, with southwestern and western Europe being the most above-average regions, because of an intense heatwave around mid-July, WMO said.
