According to European climate service Copernicus, summer 2024 was the hottest on record, increasing the likelihood that this year will turn out to be the warmest humans have ever recorded.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because experts have stated that extreme weather and high temperatures are becoming more often due to human-caused climate change, temporarily exacerbated by El Nino events. Last year, the globe broke records in this regard.
According to Copernicus, the average temperature of the northern meteorological summer, which is June, July, and August, is 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit). That is 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit (or 0.03 degrees Celsius) warmer than the previous record set in 2023.
