July on track to be hottest month ever recorded, analysis shows

July will be the hottest month ever recorded, surpassing by a “considerable margin” the previous record for the same month set four years ago, according to a new analysis by Germany’s Leipzig University. 

The analysis released Thursday found that this month had 23 consecutive days of record global temperatures and is on track to be more than 0.2 C warmer than July 2019, the former front-runner in the 174-year observational record.

“It’s certain at this point already that we are in absolutely new record territory,” said Karsten Haustein, the climate scientist who led the analysis.

The average temperature for July is forecast to about 1.5 C above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) level, before the planet was warmed by burning coal,

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