The temperature in July was solely 0.04°C decrease than the earlier excessive set in July 2023, mentioned C3S, applied by the European Centre for Medium-Vary Climate Forecasts on behalf of the European Fee with funding from the European Union.
July additionally marked the top of 13 months when every month was the warmest in its information for the respective month of the 12 months. The same size streak of month-to-month international temperature information occurred beforehand in 2015-2016 over the last robust El Niño occasion. The world went by means of El Nino from June 2023 to April 2024.
2 hottest days
“Although July 2024 was not fairly as heat as July 2023 on common, the Earth skilled its two hottest days. The every day global-average temperature reached 17.16°C and 17.15°C on July 22 and 23. Given the small distinction, much like the extent of uncertainty within the information, we can not say which of the 2 days was the most well liked with full certainty,” the climate company mentioned.
In keeping with information, the month was 1.48°C above the estimated July common for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference interval, marking the top of a collection of 12 consecutive months at or above 1.5°C.
The worldwide common temperature for the previous 12 months (August 2023 – July 2024) is 0.76°C above the 1991-2020 common and 1.64°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial common, it mentioned.
The year-to-date (January–July) international temperature anomaly for 2024 is 0.70°C above the 1991-2020 common, 0.27°C hotter than the identical interval in 2023, mentioned C3S. Temperatures had been principally above common over Asia.
La Nina creating
“The common anomaly for the remaining months of this 12 months would wish to drop by not less than 0.23°C for 2024 to not be hotter than 2023. This hardly ever occurred in your entire dataset, making it more and more seemingly that 2024 goes to be the warmest 12 months on document,” it mentioned.
The ocean floor temperature (SST) for July 2024 was 20.88°C, the second-highest worth on document for the month, and solely 0.01°C beneath July 2023. It ended a 15-month interval when the SST was the warmest within the information document for the respective month of the 12 months.
The equatorial Pacific had below-average temperatures, indicating a creating La Niña, however air temperatures over the ocean remained unusually excessive over many areas.
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