The June-July-August season - summer in the Northern Hemisphere-was the warmest ever recorded, with an average temperature of 16.77°C, which was 0.66°C above the 1990-2020 average, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Data for August 2023 shows that the month set a new all-time heat record with an average temperature of 16.82°C -0.71°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average, and more alarmingly, 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average of 1850-1900, a key threshold beyond which experts say the planet will be pushed into irrevocable climate changes.
The hottest August came right on the heels of the hottest July-about 0.33 warmer than the previous warmest month, July 2019 and the hottest June, which was 0.13°C warmer than the previous record set by June 2020.
Seen together, the three months made the 2023 summer surpass the 2019 record of 16.48°C by a wide margin, C3S said in a statement.
The new data prompted yet another stark warning from the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who said that "climate breakdown has begun".
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