Summer 2024 is already the hottest on record

Spectators and cyclists during a heatwave coinciding with the Paris Olympics on August 4th, 2024. | Photo by Magali Cohen / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images The Northern Hemisphere just experienced the hottest summer on record since at least 1940, even topping last year’s record-breaking season, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.“The temperature-related extreme events witnessed this summer will only become more intense.”
Scorching temper