June 2019 is the hottest year on earth with 1.71 degrees F

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has said that June was the hottest year on earth with average global temperature of 1.71 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 59.9 degrees, making it the hottest June in a 140-year record.

“Mother Earth worked up a major sweat last month. Scorching temperatures made June 2019 the hottest June on record for the globe. And for the second month in a row, warmth brought Antarctic sea-ice coverage to a new low for June,” the report said.

According to a report by NOAA’s scientists, nine of the 10 hottest Junes have occurred since 2010 saying, last month also was the 43rd consecutive June and 414th consecutive month with above-average global temperatures.

Average Antarctic sea-ice coverage was 8.5 per cent below the 1981-2010 average and sea ice coverage was 10.5 per cent below the overall average, which is based on records beginning in 1979.

The report noted that the average global temperature in June was 0.95°C (1.71°F) above the 20th-century global average of 15.5°C (59.9°F) for the month.

Meanwhile, the period from January through June produced a global temperature 0.95°C above the 20th-century average of 13.5°C.

This year is currently in a tie with 2017 as the second-hottest year, to date, on record.

According to the report, South America, parts of the southern Africa, Madagascar, New Zealand, Alaska, western Canada, Mexico, eastern Asia, the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and the Bering Sea all experienced the hottest first half of the year on record.