North America experiences hottest June on record
Source: RTÉ
North America experiences hottest June on record
Updated / Wednesday, 7 Jul 2021 08:39
Last month was the hottest June on record in North America, stoked by a deadly heatwave searing across parts of the region, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported, saying it illustrates the impacts of global warming.
Record-breaking heat scorched from the southwest to the northwest of the United States and into Canada, where the all-time record daily temperature was broken three days in a row in British Columbia.
The region was 1.2 degrees Celsius (34.2F) above the 1991-2020 average in June, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
"These heatwaves are not happening in a vacuum. They are happening in a global climate environment that is warming and which makes them more likely to occur," said C3S climate scientist Julien Nicolas.
Globally, June 2021 joins the same month in 2018 as the fourth warmest June.
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