July enters history books as hottest month on record

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July was officially the hottest month ever recorded, surpassing the previous record set in 2019 by 0.3C, according to the European earth observation agency.

Scientists at the agency said the average global temperature in July was about 1.5C warmer than that of the pre-industrial period of 1850 to 1900, before human-induced climate change b