Heat records just keep stacking up around the globe and across the southern U.S. As the three-month climatological summer came to a close, many locations reported a summer among the too five warmest, and for some, the heat showed no signs of letting up as September began.
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Meteorologists count summer as the three months between June 1 and August 31, not the typical season that starts later in September. Using that measure, the globe just turned in its hottest summer on record , breaking a record set in 2023, reported USA TODAY’s Doyle Rice, based on information provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That includes the globe’s hottest ever June and hottest ever August.
August marked 530 consecutive months with U.S. temperatures above the 20th century average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.