Data collected from Copernicus Climate Change Service, a scientific organisation under the scope of the EU space programme, has shown that June 2024 was the warmest June recorded globally.
This marked the twelfth consecutive month that global temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
The data collected for June showed that the average surface air temperature for the month was 16.66°C, 0.67°C above the average for June from 1991 to 2020 and 0.14°C higher than the previous record set in June 2023.
Rising temperatures have been experienced across the Earth. June 2024 was Europe's joint second warmest recorded. There were temperature anomalies recorded across South-East Europe and Turkey.
The Western United States, Eastern Canada, Brazil, Mexico, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Northern Siberia and Western Antartica all saw notable temperature increases.
Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, Carlo Buontempo, said: "June marks the 13th consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures and the 12th in a row above 1.5°C with respect to pre-industrial. This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate.
"Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm. This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans."
