Last Month Was the Hottest June in North America in Recent Recorded History

As a heatwave continues to cook the Pacific Northwest of the United States this week, heat records have fallen like dominos throughout the rest of the northern hemisphere. Even the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which registers global temperature extremes, admitted that it was having trouble keeping up. “So many records have been broken that it is difficult to keep track,” the organization wrote in its latest report on exceptional heat. Seattle set an all-time record of 104°F (40°C) on June 27, then immediately broke it the next day, with a high of 107°F (41.7°C). Portland hit 112°F (44.4°C). Last Wednesday, the Canadian mountain town of Lytton broke the country’s all-time record, reaching 121.3°F (49.6 °C), a temperature I last experienced when reporting in Jacobabad, Pakistan, long considered to be one of the hottest cities on earth. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Indeed, the latest report from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, which tracks global temperatures using billions of measurements taken from around the world, confirms what we already know: June 2021 was the warmest June recorded in North America. https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1YsfU/1/ The fact that the hottest northern hemisphere Junes have all happened in the past six years gives us a pretty good indication of where things are going next. As the WMO seeks to verify reports of the highest-eve...
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