The US National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) said the combined land and ocean-surface temperature around the world was 0.93 of a degree C (1.67F) above the 20th century average of 15.8 C (60.4F)
The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said that the only hotter July in Europe was in 2010.
A climatologist with NOAA said:"Differences between each data set are bound to happen and these are mainly due to how each methodology treats areas with little to no data. This can lead to minor differences in temperature anomalies and thus in ranks." Heatwaves struck Europe, from the Baltics to the eastern Mediterranean. France and Spain experienced anRainfall has also been much higher than average in western parts of central Europe.
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