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July 2026 ties with July 2024 as Earth’s hottest month on record

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By Jeff Masters
| Yale Climate Connections
July 2026 tied with July 2024 as the planet’s hottest July since modern record-keeping began in 1850, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported August 11. NASA rated July 2026 as the hottest July on record, while the European Copernicus Climate Change Service rated it the second-hottest. Climatologically, July is the hottest month of the year, so July 2026 and 2024 are “more likely than not the hottest months on record for the globe since 1850,” NOAA said.
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The Floods Of The Future Won’t Come One At A Time

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By Jeff Masters
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: Chris Gallagher on Unsplash. When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in August 2017 and then petered out in the central Caribbean Sea, no one could have suspected that the meager clump of clouds that remained would go on to become the second-costliest weather disaster in world history.
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The U.S. just had its hottest month in recorded history, surpassing Dust Bowl record

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By Jeff Masters, Bob Henson Verified
| Yale Climate Connections
Those who deny or dismiss U.S. climate change have hit a Waterloo moment of sorts. The nation just experienced its hottest month in more than 130 years of analysis, which breaks a record that had stood since the infamous Dust Bowl of the 1930s. For the 48 contiguous states, the July 2026 average of 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit (24.94 degrees Celsius) came in 0.12°F (0.07°C) above the value from July 1936. This makes last month the hottest calendar month in national data going back to January 1895.
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