The European climate monitoring organization made it official on Tuesday: July 2023 was Earth's hottest month on record by a wide margin.
July's global average temperature of 62.51 degrees Fahrenheit was six-tenths of a degree higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday. Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tenth of a degree, so this margin is unusual.
Also on Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the U.S. is now at a record 15 weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage this year. It's the most mega-disasters through the first seven months of a year.
INFLATION: The federal government said Thursday that overall consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year earlier. That was up from a 3% annual rise in June, which was the lowest rate in more than two years. The latest figure remained far below last year's peak of 9.1%, though still above the Fed's 2% inflation target.
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