June 2023, the hottest month ever on Earth:«But August could be even worse»

In its monthly report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association said the highest temperatures since 1850 were recorded.

Those of June 2023 are the highest temperatures ever recorded on Earth since records began in 1850.He communicated it in his monthly report the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the US agency, according to which June 2023 was the warmest month on Earth.But it is likely that those in August will set another record, a trend that is destined not to stop.Unusually high temperatures are to be expected in most of the United States, “almost everywhere except the northern Great Plains,” explains the New York Times.But it doesn't end here.Because according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, the highest temperatures were recorded - again - in the first two weeks of July, in a run-up which, if not stopped, will make the summer of 2023 - and future ones - increasingly unbearable. for hundreds of millions, billions, of human beings.The analyzes of the relationship annual Ispra, which certifies that last year, 2022, was the warmest and least rainy for Italy since 1961.In its report, NOAA recalls that in Laredo, Texas, temperatures exceeded 37 degrees for more than 20 days in June and in Austin, El Paso and San Antonio for more than 10.Heat waves have always been there, but according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California climate changes they gave them back five times more likely and with higher temperatures and a heat index - which also takes humidity into account.