July 2015 hottest ever recorded

Keeping in line with the record-breaking temperatures, the first seven months of 2015 were the hottest January-to-July span in recorded history, according to the Associated Press. “That is being shown time and time again in our data”, said physical scientist Jake Crouch, from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

The US government agency pointed out that 2014 now stands as the hottest year since scientists started recording precise world temperatures using instruments.

Temperatures have surpassed the previous record from 2010 by 0.09C.

Heat waves also gripped parts of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden and France, which experienced its third-hottest July.

While Victoria, B.C., sweated through its hottest summer on record, Phillips said, St. John’s, N.L., shivered through its coldest-ever July.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the record just over three months before world leaders seek to reach a climate agreement in Paris. Researchers stressed that several indicators of climate change, such as rising land and ocean temperatures, sea levels and greenhouses, set new records a year ago , confirming that the planet is gradually getting warmer.

Here across the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry temperatures were 1.1°F WARMER than normal for the month…with an average high temperature of 93.5°.

We’ve broken so many temperature records lately, I’m starting to sound like a broken record.

The latest analysis follows confirmation from the NOAA and NASA in January this year that 2014 was the hottest year since records began. An El Nino is a warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that alters weather worldwide for about a year.

And July was the hottest month, globally on record. “What does that mean for people on the ground?”

NOAA also predicts that a strong El Nino is building up whose effect will be more than the intensity of the 1997 climate event which affected the weather drastically across the globe; from fires in Australia to mudslides in California.