{"id":157186,"date":"2026-09-09T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/august-breaks-historical-record-as-the-warmest-month-globally\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:01:25","slug":"august-breaks-historical-record-as-the-warmest-month-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/august-breaks-historical-record-as-the-warmest-month-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"August breaks historical record as the warmest month globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August is established as the hottest month in history globally<\/h2>\n\n<p>The recent month of August has left a worrying mark on international climate records. According to the latest bulletin from Copernicus, the European space program&#8217;s climate monitoring service, this period has officially become the warmest month recorded globally, reaching an average surface temperature of 16.96 \u00baC.<\/p>\n\n<p>This figure exceeds the previous record set in July 2023, placing the temperature 0.85 \u00baC above the 1991-2020 average and 1.65 \u00baC above pre-industrial levels. It is the first time since November of last year that the critical threshold of 1.5 \u00baC of global warming has been exceeded again.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A summer of extremes for Europe<\/h2>\n\n<p>Western Europe has experienced its hottest summer on record, with a thermal anomaly of 2.54 \u00baC above the average, surpassing the historical maximum set in 2003. At a continental level, it ranks as the third hottest summer, only behind the records of 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Persistent heat waves since the month of May.<\/li><li>Widespread drought that severely affected major European rivers such as the Rhine, the Danube, and the Vistula.<\/li><li>Direct impact on the continent&#8217;s economy and ecosystems.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alarming records in the oceans<\/h2>\n\n<p>The warming phenomenon was not limited to the atmosphere. The oceans also marked unprecedented figures during August. The average sea surface temperature reached 21.07 \u00baC, matching the records from March 2024. In addition, a record global daily temperature of 21.11 \u00baC was detected in waters outside of extrapolar regions.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Data shows how climate change is driving extremes in both the atmosphere and the oceans. Populations, economies, and ecosystems around the world are increasingly feeling the impact of these conditions.<\/p><cite>Samantha Burgess, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Marine heatwaves, particularly intense on the Atlantic coast and the western Mediterranean, are added to the influence of the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon in the tropical Pacific, consolidating a warming trend that continues to challenge global climate stability according to reports from Alofoke Deportes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August is established as the hottest month in history globally The recent month of August has left a worrying mark on international climate records. According to the latest bulletin from Copernicus, the European space program&#8217;s climate monitoring service, this period has officially become the warmest month recorded globally, reaching an average surface temperature of 16.96 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[12908,15428,4861,1646],"class_list":{"0":"post-157186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-copernicus","9":"tag-global-warming","10":"tag-temperatures","11":"tag-weather"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}