According to a joint report from NASA and NOAA scientists, July may have just been the hottest month in recorded history.
YUKI IWAMURA via Getty Imagesfrom scientists at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration , July appears to have been the hottest month in recorded history.
Per the report, which was presented by researchers on Monday, July 2023 was hotter than any other July in NOAA's 174-year record by more than a third of a degree Fahrenheit. Sea surface temperatures, meanwhile, recorded a full 1.78 degrees higher than any other July, bringing the ocean to its fourth consecutive month of, and Antarctica— which is in its winter season, mind you — saw its third straight month of record-low sea ice levels.
"Last month was way, way warmer than anything we've ever seen," Sarah Kapnick, NOAA's chief scientist, said in a Monday press briefing,
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