June was Earth’s 14th straight record warm month

It’s no longer a question of whether 2016 will be the hottest on record, but by how much. Only central and southern South America experienced cooler-than-average conditions during June 2016. In practical terms, this marks the 14th consecutive month that global heat records have been broken. April 2015 was the last month when the Earth did not encounter any record high temperatures.

As El Nino ends this year, the Pacific cooling trend known as La Nina is set to begin, and 2017 will likely not break records as this year has so far, Schmidt said.

This June has joined every other month of this year so far in setting an all-time monthly record for global temperatures, according to two separate federal science agencies – though the globe was not as extremely warm last month as it was earlier in the year.

In Pakistan, June 20 turned out to be the hottest day of 2015 with temperatures in some parts of Sindh nearing 50 degrees Celsius. What they found was a world that was 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the average June in the 20th Century.

“Overall, 14 of the 15 highest monthly temperature departures in the record have all occurred since February 2015”, the report noted, “with January 2007 representing the one month prior to February 2015”.

The last time global land surface temperatures were below average in June was in 1982.

In the report the scientists either looked at sea or land temperatures separately or at a combined average over land and ocean surfaces. But at the same time, with emissions peaking again past year. everything was pointing to an increased temperature.

The area of Antarctic sea ice was also below average in June, according to NOAA, and was the the smallest since 2011.

“It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme”, NASA’s Walt Meier said. That’s the latest news from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The area of the Arctic covered by ice was the smallest for June since records began in 1979, NOAA and NASA said.