July was hottest on record, NOAA says, with 2024 likely to be warmest year to date

Last month was the warmest July on record for the last 175 years, experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. 

This marks the 14 consecutive month of record-breaking global warm temperatures, said Karin Gleason, monitoring section chief for NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. 

NOAA's findings differed very slightly from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, another resource for seasonal forecasts, which ranked July 2024 as the second hottest July on record, behind July 2023.