Hottest Month

Minimum temperatures for October reached unprecedented levels, the highest since the IMD began keeping records in 1901

Last week, Copernicus - the EU's climate science service - said July was the second hottest month ever recorded. But this week, NASA and the US NOAA said it was the world's hottest

This reanalysis goes back to 1940, and it allows researchers to say with confidence when a record is broken, whether for a day, month or year

The world last month experienced the warmest February on record, with the average temperature being 1.77 degrees Celsius more than the February average for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period, the European Union's climate agency said on Thursday. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) also said that every month since June last year has been the warmest such month on record. Scientists attribute the exceptional warming to the combined effects of El Nino -- a period of abnormal warming of surface waters in the central Pacific Ocean -- and human-caused climate change. C3S last month said the global mean temperature breached the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold for an entire year for the first time in January. A permanent breach of the 1.5-degree Celsius limit specified in the Paris Agreement, however, refers to long-term warming over many years. According to climate scientists, countries need to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius a

August was about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial averages

Ocean temperatures also rose to their highest levels since at least 1991, making June the third consecutive month a new record has been created

The monthly average beat the previous record from July 2015 by 0.2 degrees Celsius and is 2.7 degrees higher than the long-term average for July

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According to the NOAA, the average global temperature in July was 0.95 deg Celsius (1.71 deg Fahrenheit) above the 20th century average of 15.8 deg Celsius (60.4 Fahrenheit)

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Last month was 0.88 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean May temperature from 1951-198