June Was World's 13th Consecutive Hottest Month As Climate Change Gallops On

Once again, lots of red on the world map for June,
2024, which was the 13th consecutive hottest month
on record. 

 The global data for the world's climate in June came in a few days ago, and what to you know?

June was the hottest on record.  It was the 13th consecutive hottest on record month.  Seems like a trend, ya know?  

All this is from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, which keeps detailed track of this sort of stuff. 

The long awaited slight global cooling trend which has been expected as El Nino ends has so far failed to materialize.  

Researchers say it's still coming, and months during the second half of the year probably won't make it the Number One position on the list of hottest months. But they will probably score at least in the Top 10. 

It does appear July is on track to maybe place just #2 on the list of the world's hottest Julys.  But it probably will come in at #2 after the extreme global heat of July, 2023.

The National Centers for Environmental Information now gives 2024 a 60 percent chance of being the world's hottest year on record and a 100 percent chance it will score at least in the Top 5. 

In June, the hottest places relative to average were the Caribbean area, parts of northern South America, larger swaths of Africa, the Middle East and parts of Southeast Asia. Overall, 14.5 percent of the Earth's surface experienced record heat in June, 2024, compared to just over 7 percent in the previous hottest June last year. 

Two nations or territories set all time record highs in June. Palau, a western Pacific Ocean island nation, reached 96 degrees and Egypt hit 123.6, says extreme temperature tracker Maximiliano Herrera. 

As has been the case for over a year now, cool pockets on Earth were hard to come by during June. The only relatively cool spots were the southern tip of South America, a few corners of Antartica, central Canada and a couple of small pockets in Australia and near Greenland. 

Global sea surface temperatures were at record high levels for the 15th consecutive month. 

UNITED STATES

For the U.S., June was the second warmest on record. 

Arizona and New Mexico has their hottest June on record, while 19 states, including here in Vermont, scored in the top 10. 

Through the first half of the year, four states are so far having their warmest year on record. They are  Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont (yay!) and West Virginia. Every state east of the Mississippi River except Alabama and Louisiana has had one of their top ten warmest first half of the year. 

Four new disasters were added to the rapidly growing list of weather and climate related disasters in the United States this year. These include a tornado and severe storm outbreak in the Midwest on May 25-26; a Texas hail storm on May 27-28 and another hail storm in Colorado on May 31-June 1.

There have been 15 billion dollar disasters in the U.S. this year. 

Other disasters might be added to the list of $1 billion dollar events, but they haven't been fully tallied u yet. Those include a severe weather outbreak in the Midwest on June 12-13; flooding in the Midwest in  late June, and Hurricane Beryl, which as we know was one of the causes or our recent new flood disaster in Vermont.  

And the wild global climate rages on.