The Run of Record-Breaking Heat Has Ended, for Now

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A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended.

From June 2023 until June 2024, air and ocean surface water temperatures averaged a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than records set only a few years previously. Air temperatures in July 2024 were slightly cooler than the previous July (0.04 degrees Celsius, the narrowest of margins) according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

July 2023 was in turn 0.28 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous record-hot July in 2019, so the

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