Turkiye recorded a record national temperature of 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 Fahrenheit) last month, making it the third warmest July on record, according to scientists on Thursday.
Although the planet’s record-breaking temperatures paused last month, the extreme climate conditions that scientists attribute to man-made global warming resumed their trend.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Union reports that the average worldwide surface air temperature in July was 16.68°C, 0.45°C higher than the average for the month from 1991 to 2020.
“The recent run of global temperature records is over – for now,” stated Carlo Buontempo, director of C3S, two years after the hottest July on record.
