Amidst extreme heat, drought and wildfires, many parts of the world had just experienced one of three warmest Julys on record, the UN weather agency said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), temperatures were close to 0.4\u2103 above the 1991-2020 average across much of Europe, with southwestern and western Europe being the most above-average regions, because of an\u00a0intense heatwave around mid-July.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is despite the La Ni\u00f1a event that\u2019s meant to have a cooling influence,\u201d explained WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw this in some places, but not globally,\u201d she added, noting that it was \u201cone of the three warmest [Julys] on record, slightly cooler than July 2019, warmer 2016- but the difference is too close to call\u201d.<\/p>\n
Portugal, western France and Ireland broke record highs, while England hit 40\u2103 readings for the very first time.<\/p>\n
National all-time records for daily maximum temperatures were also broken in Wales and Scotland.<\/p>\n
Spain also had its hottest month on record in July, with an average national temperature of 25.6\u00b0C \u2013 with a heatwave from 8 to 26 July that was the most intense and longest lasting on record.<\/p>\n
Using data from the European Commission\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the\u00a0UN weather agency confirmed that Europe had its sixth warmest July.<\/p>\n
The heat travelled further north and east ushering very high temperatures across other countries, including Germany and parts of Scandinavia, with local July and all-time records broken at several locations in Sweden.<\/p>\n
At the same time, from the Horn of Africa to southern India, and much of central Asia to most of Australia experienced below-average temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":1,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[306,978],"region":[26],"source":[1538],"country":[1920],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/96783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/96783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96784,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/96783\/revisions\/96784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96783"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=96783"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=96783"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=96783"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=96783"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=96783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}