Blistering June has 2023 on pace to be the hottest year ever

If you thought 2021, the year of the heat dome, was bad, 2023 is shaping up to be the hottest year ever, partially thanks to a hot af June.

The Weather Network says that June 2023 was the hottest June on record “of at least the past 174 years.”

It compiled various reports from agencies, including NASA, the NOAA, and Berkley Earth, indicating that last month was the hottest year since the industrial revolution.

It also sounds like this is all because of man-made global warming.

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“June 2023 set a record as the warmest June for the globe in NOAA’s 174-year record,” stated NOAA in a report.

NOAA’s records suggest that this is the 47th consecutive year that the global average temperature for June exceeded the 20th-century average.

It added that the global June surface temperature was 1.05°C about the 20th-century average of 15.5°C, making “the first time a June temperature exceeded 1°C above the long-term average.”

The intelligent folks at Berkeley Earth think the likelihood is strong that 2023 will break all previous yearly records. Berkeley Earth previously correctly predicted, with an 85% likelihood, that 2015 would be the hottest year record at the time.

Prior to June, we had placed the odds of a 2023 record annual-average at 54%.

But the warmth in June, and the short-term boost that comes from a strengthening of El Niño, have increased the odds of a 2023 record.

The long-term warming trend is due to man-made global warming. pic.twitter.com/RNGCPkKWnC

— Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) July 11, 2023

It remains to be seen what kind of weather August will bring, but it doesn’t sound like it will take much for 2023 to become the hottest year ever.