Feeling the heat: Earth in July was hottest month on record

“As July is climatologically the warmest month of the year globally, this monthly global temperature of 16.61°C (61.86°F) was also the highest among all 1627 months in the record that began in January 1880”.

July was the most hot thirty day period throughout the world since data started out being stored in 1880, the Nationwide Oceanic and also Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared Thursday.

The average land surface temperature documented across the planet this past July was 1.73 degrees Fahrenheit (0.96 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average and the 6th highest so far reported.

NASA’s global analysis coincides with the worrying trends spotted by NOAA, where every month of this year has brought a new warmth record, with the crowning records brought by June and July, the back-to-back warmest months ever caught on record. July 2015 was 0.08 degrees hotter than July 1998, the previous record-holder, a significant margin in terms of global temperature.

And it won’t be long until Earth will experience its hottest year on record. The air temperature recorded was 115 and when added to a dew point of 90 degrees, the city’s heat index reached a fuming 165 degrees, NOAA claimed. As a result, many experts believe that 2015 will be the warmest year on record by some margin.

It doesn’t matter if a month or a year is No. 1 or No. 2 or No. 5 hottest on record, said University of Georgia climate scientist Marshall Shepherd.

NOAA said the high temperatures were caused by a combination of man-made climate change and a strong El-Nino. The heating of the equatorial region in the Pacific Ocean, “Godzilla El Niño”, which is affecting weather worldwide (especially the US in winter); may also push the temperature higher.

Nine of the 10 hottest months since records began have occurred since 2005, NOAA said. The agency says the latest data suggests that 2015 will likely be the hottest year on record.

The NOAA calculated the rate of temperature increase for July at an average of 0.65 C per century.