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Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), says it is virtually certain that the high temperatures in July mean that "the month as a whole will become the warmest July on record, the warmest month on record". The top 21 hottest days have "all occurred this month", he adds. SOUNDBITE
Temperature reaches over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Shymkent, Kazakhstan over the weekend - enough to make anyone scramble for cover. The weather was so hot that one man decided to have his breakfast al fresco, and scramble his eggs in the sun after the abnormal warmth heated the pan enough to cook with.
Days before international climate talks will take place in Paris, a United Nations agency has announced that climate change is to blame for extreme weather this year, and temperatures have reached record-breaking highs.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released a forecast on Monday stating that this year’s El Nino is growing stronger and is expected to become the worst ever recorded.
"I still have more high probability for 2024 to break the record," explains the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) chief of climate monitoring, Omar Baddour, during a presentation of the annual State of the Climate report. "January was the warmest January on record (...) we have already signs of going through a very warm year in 2024," he adds. SOUNDBITE
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