July was Earth’s third-warmest on record, EU scientists say

Global warming wreaks havoc

The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures, but many regions were devastated by extreme weather amplified by global warming, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday. Heavy rains flooded Pakistan and northern China; Canada, Scotland and Greece struggled to tame wildfires intensified by persistent drought; and many nations in Asia and Scandinavia recorded new average highs for the month. "Two year…

July 2025 was the third-hottest ever recorded, EU scientists say

“Two years after the hottest July on record, the recent streak of global temperature records is over — for now,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

July 2025 ranked as Earth’s third-hottest month on record, say EU scientists

According to scientists, July 2025 was the third warmest July ever recorded, with a national temperature record set in Turkey of 50.5°C (122.9°F). This extreme heat continues the trend of rising global temperatures, attributed largely to human-induced climate change. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported that the global average surface temperature in July reached 16.68°C, which is 0.45°C above the average for the month from 1991-2…

FMI: Lapland records longest heatwave in Finland’s history

Finland experienced one of its hottest Julys on record, with Finnish Lapland facing an unprecedented heatwave that lasted nearly four weeks, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). FMI researcher Mika Rantanen said the data marked a historic first for Lapland. In Ylitornio, temperatures exceeded 27 degrees Celsius on 26 consecutive days, the longest stretch of hot weather ever recorded in the region.