With apologies to Stevie Wonder, for whom it was once an album title, nothing is “hotter than July.” July was the hottest month.
Maybe you’re waiting for that sentence to be qualified: “hottest month of the last 20 years,” let’s say. But it turns out July of 2019 was the hottest month, period — hottest in the history of record keeping, hottest of all time. The previous record holder was another July, just three years ago.
This, according to European scientists at the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Their findings were confirmed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which, before it allowed itself to be pressured into supporting Donald Trump's bushwa about Hurricane Dorian striking Alabama, was considered an authoritative source on climatological matters.