Scorching August Temperatures Top Off Hottest Summer on Record

Last month was the hottest August on record, topping off the hottest summer on record, according to climate scientists.

June through August was the warmest summer on record globally by a large margin, according to the European Unions Copernicus Climate Change Service.

"Global temperature records continue to tumble in 2023, with the warmest August following on from the warmest July and June leading to the warmest boreal summer in our data record going back to 1940, Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement. 2023 is currently ranked as the second warmest, at only 0.01C behind 2016 with four months of the year remaining.