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Last month turned out to be the hottest on the planet's land surface

since the historical series of world temperatures began

in 1880, according to the latest monthly climatological report from the US agency

NOAA

(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).

The report notes that this June was

the fifth warmest on Earth's global surface in 142 years

on record, 0.88 degrees above the 20th century average. Only June

2015

(fourth warmest),

2016

(second), 2019 (first) and

2020

(third) were warmer and had a thermal anomaly higher than 0.90ºC compared to normal.

Regarding the land surface,

June 2021 was the hottest ever recorded

, with 1.42ºC more than the average of the 20th century and 0.11ºC in relation to the previous event, June 2019. The 10 June the warmest on land have occurred since 2010. This record is established above all in the northern hemisphere, which experienced the warmest June ever, with 1.69ºC more than the average of the last century, which is 0.18ºC. more compared to June 2012, which until now was the hottest in the northern hemisphere.

Regarding the oceanic surface, that of June of this year was the sixth warmest since 1880, with 0.68ºC more than normal.

MORE DATA FOR JUNE

By contrast,

June temperatures were somewhat cooler than average in parts of the

central and eastern tropical

Pacific

, as well as locations in the southeast Pacific, northeastern Canada, southern South America, the northern Atlantic, and central Asia. and western Australia.

However, there was no record of cold.

Nine of the 10 warmest June on the Earth's global surface

have arrived since 2010

and only 1998 represents the 20th century in that 'top ten'.

June 2021 is the 45th June in a row and the 438th month in a row with

temperatures above the 20th century average

on the planet's surface.

December 1984 was the last time it was colder than average.

Last month it was warmer than normal over part of the planet's surface, with

positive anomalies of at least 3 ° C

in large places on land in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in parts of North America, Europe, and western and central Russia. .

The North Pacific and parts of the Atlantic had temperatures at least 2ºC higher than usual.

In June there were heat records in parts of

North America

, the

Atlantic

,

Africa

,

Asia

and

northern South America

, accounting for 4.18% of the world's surface, that is, the sixth highest percentage in June since those records began in 1951.

BY REGIONS

Last month turned out to be the hottest ever recorded in

North America

, with 1.98ºC above the average, that is, 0.30ºC more than the now second warmest June, 2016. Nine of the 10 warmest June They arrived in that region since 2006, with June 1988 among the 10 hottest.

During the last week of June, an extreme heat wave affected much of the northwestern United States and western Canada with maximum temperatures exceeding 38.0 ° C, unusual for that area.

According to the

World Meteorological Organization

(WMO), the Canadian town of Lytton (in British Columbia) set a new national record for maximum temperature for three consecutive days, reaching 49.6ºC on June 29.

There were

more than 100 heat-related deaths and hospitalizations throughout western Canada

.

In the United States, preliminary reports indicated that the heat affected crops such as berries and wheat.

For the United States, the temperature in June 2021 was the highest for that month in a 127-year historical series, 4.2ºC above the 20th century average.

For its part,

Africa

also experienced the hottest June, with 1.44ºC higher than the average and 0.07ºC in relation to the previous record, of June 2020. The last three June are the warmest ever recorded on this continent.

Europe

experienced the second warmest June, 2.36ºC warmer than normal, but 0.57ºC cooler than the June 2019 record. Last month turned out to be the warmest in the Netherlands since 1901 and in Finland since 1953, the third in Australia in 254 years of national registrations, the fourth in Switzerland since 1864 and the fifth in Norway since 1900.

Asia as a

whole was 1.50C warmer than usual in June 2021, which tied with 2010 as the second warmest June.

It was also hotter than normal in South America and Oceania, but last month is out of the hottest June 10 in those areas.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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