July was Earth’s hottest month on record, beating or tying July 2016

July was Earth’s hottest month ever recorded, “on a par with, and possibly marginally higher” than the previous warmest month, which was July 2016, according to provisional data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service. This European climate agency will have a full report for all of July on Monday, but a spokesperson said enough data (through July 29) has already come in to make this declaration.

Rank of annual maximum temperatures observed
 in Europe in 2019 compared to 1950 to 2018. 

The monthly global average temperature anomaly was 2.16 degrees (1.2 Celsius) above preindustrial levels, the center reported in its preliminary figures Friday.

Read the strong rom The Washington Post by Andrew Freedman from the Capital Weather Gang - “July was Earth’s hottest month on record, beating or tying July 2016.”