July was the hottest month ever recorded worldwide

Pakistani youths cool themselves from a leaking water pipeline during a heatwave in Karachi in the month of July.

Last month was the hottest July on record globally, and the first seven months of 2015 are the warmest ever recorded as well, federal officials said Thursday.

The month averaged 16.61C (61.86F) across the world, narrowly beating the previous record set last year, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information said.

The NOAA reported that the “combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for July 2015 was 1.46°F degrees above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees”, which matches with data from NASA and Japan’s Meteorological Administration, both of which had similar findings.

Records go back to 1880, but nine of the 10 hottest months on record have happened since 2005.

“Now that we are fairly certain that 2015 will be the warmest year on record, it is time to start looking at what are the impacts of that?”

Warmer than average temperatures were recorded in South America, North America, Africa and Europe, NOAA says. Plus, new all-time warm low-temperatures are outpacing the cold record lows more than 6-to-1.

This July was the 39th consecutive July with a global temperature that was above average. Apparently, extremes don’t really faze us so much these days.