July Was World's Hottest Month on Record, World Meteorological Organization Says
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July was world's hottest month on record, World Meteorological Organization says
The latest data from the World Meteorological Organization shows the month of July "at least equalled if not surpassed the hottest month in recorded history" - and it followed the hottest June ever, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday.
The UN chief told reporters that "this is even more significant because the previous hottest month, July 2016, occurred during one of the strongest El Nino's ever," which was not the case this year.
An El Nino is a natural warming of the ocean that once it interacts with the atmosphere often warms up the globe and changes rainfall and temperature patterns, making some places wetter and some places drier.
Guterres said the latest weather data, including temperature-shattering records from New Delhi and Anchorage to Paris, Santiago, Adelaide, Australia and the Arctic Circle, means the world is on track for the period from 2015 to 2019 "to be the five hottest years on record."
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