EU Copernicus Climate Change Service says start of June saw global surface air temper break heat records for the period.
Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a “substantial margin”, the European Union’s climate monitoring unit said.
“The world has just experienced its warmest early June on record,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said in a statement on Thursday.
“Global-mean surface air temperatures for the first days of June 2023 were the…