Three independent agencies have confirmed July 2016 as the warmest month since they started keeping temperature records, the Weather Channel has reported. July is usually the warmest month globally, since the northern hemisphere has more land mass, and land heats up faster and retains more heat than the oceans.
NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies found it topped the previous warmest July on its record, 2011, by 0.1 of a degree Celsius, 0.84 degrees Celsius above average, making it the warmest since 1880. The Japan Meteorological Agency's found that it was the warmest since 1891, and the Copernicus Climate Change Service in Europe found that it was the warmest since 1979.