NOAA on Wednesday said July’s global average temperature was 62.01 degrees, 1.57 degrees above the 20th-century average. NASA, which uses a slightly different methodology, said Monday the average global temperature in July was 1.51 degrees above average. NOAA said last month marks the 15th month in a row in which global heat records have been broken. NASA, which analyzes weather data from from 6,300 locations around the world, considers July 2016 to be the 10th consecutive record-setting month. “July was the hottest month ever recorded,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tweeted.

Source: Huffington Post August 17, 2016 15:25 UTC