2024 'increasingly likely' to be warmest on record: EU monitor

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said last month was the second warmest on record books going back to 1940, only slightly cooler than July 2023. Between June 2023 and June 2024, each month eclipsed its own temperature record for the time of year. "The streak of record-breaking months has come to an end, but only by a whisker," said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S. Last month the global average temperature was 16.91 degrees Celsius, only 0.04C below July 2023, according to C3S's monthly bulletin.