WORLD CLIMATE FOR JULY 2013

Global Climate Statistics from the US Government:  Highlights, July 2013

• The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for July 2013 was the sixth highest on record, at 0.61°C (1.10°F) above the 20^th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F).
• The global land surface temperature was 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20^th century average of 14.3°C (57.8°F), marking the eighth warmest July on record. For the ocean, the July global sea surface temperature was 0.54°C (0.97°F) above the 20^th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F), the fifth warmest July on record.
• The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January–July period (year-to-date) was 0.59°C (1.06°F) above the 20^th century average of 13.8°C (56.9°F), tying with 2003 as the sixth warmest such period on record.

Full report here.