NASA: Last Month Was the Warmest June on Record. Will July Break The Record Again?

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By Tom Yulsman
Jul 19, 2019 4:21 PMDec 23, 2019 4:27 AM
Greenland wildfire - Copernicus Sentinel Data
Satellite image of a wildfire blazing in in the Qeqqata Kommunia of western Greenland. The image consists of data acquired by a Sentinel satellite on July 14th, 2019 in the infrared and visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. (Credit: Copernicus Sentinel Data processed by Pierre Markuse)

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Last month has gone into the books as the warmest June on record, beating out 2016 by a comfortable margin, according to the latest global analysis by NASA.

Now, more than half way through July, conditions haven’t really cooled off. That’s probably not breaking news to you if you happen to live in the two-thirds of the United States stretching from the central to eastern United States. The region is now stifling under a dangerous summer heat wave expected to cause dozens of records to fall.

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