{"id":11360,"date":"2024-06-07T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2024-06-07T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:06:15","slug":"each-of-the-past-12-months-broke-temperature-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=11360","title":{"rendered":"Each of the Past 12 Months Broke Temperature Records"},"content":{"rendered":"


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June 2023 did not seem like an exceptional month at the time. It was the warmest June in the instrumental temperature record<\/a>, but monthly records haven’t exactly been unusual in a period where the top 10 warmest years on record all occurred in the past 15 years. And monthly records have often occurred in years that are otherwise unexceptional; at the time, the warmest July on record had occurred in 2019, a year that doesn’t stand out much from the rest of the past decade.<\/p>\n

But July 2023 set another monthly record, easily eclipsing 2019’s high temperatures. Then August set yet another monthly record. And so has every single month since\u2014a string of records that propelled 2023 to being the warmest year since tracking started.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the European Union’s Earth-monitoring service, Copernicus, announced<\/a> that it has now been a full year where every month has been the warmest version of that month since there’s been enough instruments in place to track global temperatures.<\/p>\n

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