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According to foreign media reports, August this year has been jointly declared the hottest month in recorded history, along with July 2023.
According to foreign media reports, August this year has been jointly declared the hottest month in recorded history, along with July 2023. The global average surface temperature during the month was recorded at 16.96 degrees Celsius, which was 0.85 degrees Celsius higher than the average temperature for the period from 1991 to 2020.
According to data released by the European Union’s climate monitoring service, Copernicus, the temperature in August this year was 1.65 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average recorded between 1850 and 1900.
According to the report, August was the first month since November 2025 in which the global temperature once again rose above the 1.5-degree Celsius level. In August, an increase in average surface temperatures was recorded not only over land but also in the ice-covered Polar Regions and the oceans. The average sea surface temperature reached 21.07 degrees Celsius.
The report said that on August 24 and 25, the daily average sea surface temperature reached 21.11 degrees Celsius, the highest level ever recorded. The Copernicus report stated that the global summer from June to August 2026 was also jointly the hottest on record. Western Europe experienced its hottest summer in history, breaking the previous record set in 2003. Along with the heat wave, severe drought was also recorded in several areas, including the United Kingdom, France, Hungary, Romania and Serbia, resulting in thousands of deaths.
