June didn’t just get warm. It got historic.
The European Union’s Copern program confirmed on July 1 that global sea surface temperatures hit a record high last month. This beat the previous high from June 2024. And experts say it won’t be the last time we see a new record broken.
“Current conditions could indicate the beginning of the beginning,” Carlo Buontempo, who leads the Copernicus Climate Service at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, said in a statement, “With ocean temps at these levels, and El Niño strengthening its grip on the Pacific, we are going to see more temperature records.”
The record broke on June 21. Global ocean surface temperature hit 20.8 C, 20.5 degrees C. Or, for the people who think in Fahrenheit, that’s 69.49 degrees.
The independent Copernicus Marine service, the dataset for the Marine service is independent of the data. They recorded the temperature. And it’s even hotter, 21 C. The Copernicus climate service has always used to record global sea surface temps of 21 degrees. 69.5.
This isn’t a global event. In the Mediterranean. The waters up there were up to 8.
The hottest spots: the Mediterranean, the Pacific. And the Pacific bands, off Northern Canada’s coasts.
It’s a feedback loop. Hot water keeps the atmosphere warm longer, adds energy to storms. And more evaporation means more rain. It’s the threat to global oceans.
“Ocean warming, Copernicus representatives added that higher temps keep the atmosphere warmer.
But the Pacific? According to data. The newly declared El Nino phase.
“We are going to be seen if this heat injected into an already-warming world is a new era.
