--- title: July Will Very Likely Be The Hottest Month Ever description: “The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change." canonical: https://time.com/6298508/hottest-july-ever-recorded/ author: Kyla Mandel article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-07-27T13:53:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T07:25:25.375Z article:section: Climate og:title: July Will Very Likely Be The Hottest Month Ever og:description: “The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change." og:url: https://time.com/6298508/hottest-july-ever-recorded/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e403931d5311e69/698a3f14b21a9c83b3507727/greece-wildfire-heat-wave-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Greece continues fight against wildfires on islands of Rhodes og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: July Will Very Likely Be The Hottest Month Ever twitter:description: “The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e403931d5311e69/698a3f14b21a9c83b3507727/greece-wildfire-heat-wave-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # It's 'Extremely Likely' This July Will Be the Hottest Month Ever > Sponsored content. 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Jul 27, 2023 1:53 PM UTC With heat waves spreading across the United States, President Joe Biden unveiled new steps Thursday to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible.  by [Kyla Mandel](https://time.com/author/kyla-mandel/)  ## Kyla Mandel Mandel is a senior editor at TIME. Jul 27, 2023 1:53 PM UTC July isn't even over yet and a group of scientists are saying it’s “extremely likely,” it will be the hottest month ever recorded. That's according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the E.U.-funded [Copernicus Climate Change Service.](https://climate.copernicus.eu/about-us) Already, the first three weeks of this month have been the warmest three-week stretch globally on record. Comparing that stretch of time to previous years, experts believe this July is on track to beat previous records. And the world has already been experiencing the impact of this [climate-changed](https://time.com/section/climate/) world—from [heat waves](https://time.com/6295531/heat-stroke-exhaustion-stress-differences/) in Europe, the U.S., and Asia, to wildfires in Canada and Greece, and [hot tub-esque seawater](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article277656523.html)around Miami. “The extreme weather which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh reality of climate change and a foretaste of the future,” said Petteri Taalas, the World Meteorological Organization’s Secretary-General, in a statement. “The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever before. Climate action is not a luxury but a must.” To make their determination, scientists at the WMO and Copernicus looked at satellite data for both surface air and sea temperatures. July 6 saw the global average surface air temperature reach a record 17.08°C (62.74°F). And for the month so far, average global air temperatures have reached 16.95°C (62.51°F). That's well above the average 16.63°C (61.93°F) temperatures experienced in July 2019 which, until this month is over, will technically hold the top place as the warmest July, and warmest month, ever recorded. Meanwhile, average global sea surface temperatures have been at record highs since April. ### More From TIME **Read more:** [_When It Comes to Climate Change, There's No Such Thing as a New Normal_](https://time.com/6296005/no-new-normal-with-climate-change/) This month's record heat comes amid the developing [El Nino](https://time.com/6286249/what-is-el-nino/) weather phenomenon, which is [expected](https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2023-now-likely-hottest-year-on-record-after-extreme-summer/) to boost the impacts of climate change further, from extreme heat to weirder weather. Unfortunately, experts don't expect things to ease up anytime soon. “Record-breaking temperatures are part of the trend of drastic increases in global temperatures. Anthropogenic emissions are ultimately the main driver of these rising temperatures," said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, in a statement. “July’s record is unlikely to remain isolated this year." **_A version of this story also appears in the_** **Climate is Everything** **_newsletter. To sign up,_** [**_click here_**](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/newsletters/?newsletter%5Fname=climate&source=onsite)**_._** ## Transcript There is no official record for sea surface temperature. But if you look at some official boys, run by national agencies, we've never seen a record-breaking event like this before. I mean, 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit. That's never been measured before, but there are some questions with that record and there's some good reason to believe that it might have been a few degrees cooler than I mean, you could look at these temperature measurement and say all men were questioning whether they're Valley or not, but the proof is in the impacts. The corals are not happy with this level of hot water. They are bleaching, a lot of them are dying of her too and these hot wire to extend a great depth. I've seen some measurements of 90 degrees Fahrenheit down at the level of the reefs and that is just unimaginable heat. And here we are only a July. I mean, we've got another couple months of peak eating to go. I mean, I think we're pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Right now for extreme weather. Even with, you know, a changing climate, it might be the case of I think it's probably be the case. That ten years from now, this will be seen as a relatively quiet. Summer, certainly a relatively cool summer because the heat that's going in. The air isn't going away. It's increasing. We keep on putting more CO2 in the air. 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