July 2024 was both second-warmest July and the second-warmest month on record, the European Union’s climate change service Copernicus said on Thursday. July 2024 saw a global average temperature of 16.91 degrees Celsius, 0.04 degrees Celsius lower than the average temperature in July 2023, currently the hottest month on record. Until June, monthly average temperatures had broken records every month since May 2023. “The streak of record-breaking months has come to an end, but only by a whisker,” deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service Samantha Burgess said. “The overall context…