NCEI, a unit within US meteorological agency NOAA, over night issued its global climate report for July just gone.
the aim of producing a climate report every month is to moderate the considerable noise from day to day weather with a view to seeing any long term trends that might be evident.
here are key extracts from the report for last month.
NOAA/NCEI:
"July 2024 was the warmest July on record for the globe in NOAA's 175-year record. The July global surface temperature was 1.21°C (2.18°F) above the 20th-century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F). This is 0.03°C (0.05°F) warmer than the previous July record set last year, and the 14th consecutive month of record-high global temperatures.
" This breaks the longest record warm global temperature streak in the modern record (since 1980) previously set from May 2015—May 2016. July 2024 marked the 48th consecutive July with global temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th-century average.
"Climatologically, July is the warmest month of the year. As the warmest July on record, July 2024 was more likely than not the warmest month on record for the globe since 1850. The past ten Julys have been the warmest Julys on record.
"The global land-only July temperature also was warmest on record at 1.70°C (3.06°F) above average.
"The ocean-only temperature was second-warmest at 0.98°C (1.76°F) above average, ending a streak of 15 consecutive monthly record highs that stretched from April 2023—June 2024.
"These temperatures occurred under ENSO-neutral conditions.
"According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, ENSO-neutral is expected to continue for the next several months, with La Niña favored to emerge during September-November (66% chance) and persist through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2024-25 (74% chance during November-January)."
