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The average temperature for the month was 15.8 degrees Celsius (60.4 Fahrenheit), breaking the previous record by 0.9 degree Celsius. The UK recorded the hottest June since records began in 1884, according to the country's national weather service, the Met Office. China, too, has experienced several blistering heat waves and it registered the highest number of hot days - where the maximum daily temperature exceeded 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) - over a six-month period since records began. Soaring temperatures in Mexico have killed at least 112 people since March.Ī searing heat wave in India killed at least 44 people across the state of Bihar. In the US, Texas and the South sweltered in a brutal heat wave in late June, with triple-digit-Fahrenheit temperatures and extreme humidity. This year has already seen heat records broken around the world, with devastating consequences.

"It's not a record to celebrate and it won't be a record for long, with northern hemisphere summer still mostly ahead and El Niño developing," said Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment in the UK. This global record is a preliminary one, but it's another indication of how fast the world is heating up, as the arrival of the natural climate phenomenon El Niño, which has a warming effect, is layered on top of climate change-fueled global heating. Robert Rohde, lead scientist at Berkeley Earth, said in a Twitter post on Tuesday that the world "may well see a few even warmer days over the next 6 weeks." The previous record of 16.92 degrees Celsius was set in August 2016.Įxperts warn that the record could be broken several more times this year. On Tuesday, it climbed even further, to reach 17.18 degrees Celsius - 62.9 Fahrenheit. On Monday, the average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), the highest since records began. This week saw the hottest global temperature ever recorded, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global air temperature two meters above the earth's surface was 62.62 degrees, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).