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The earth is running a sudden unexplained fever. 

The global average temperature this week spiked to the hottest level on record according to multiple datasets. Both the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer and the 

European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service

 (graphic above) show record daily global temperatures this week. 

The earth’s daily average temperature reached 62.9 degrees. That’s the highest ever recorded on current local datasets dating back to at least 1979, and may be the 

highest daily temperature in around 125,000 years

The strong of astounding records is eye-catching to climate scientists and observers. The temperature hit 104 degrees in Beijing this week. Temperatures in the 90s are observed as far north as Siberia and along the Arctic Ocean in northern Quebec. 

And records are being broken by wide margins. Here’s a 

clip from the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang

Minnesota has been riding the southern edge of a record warm weather pattern through May and June. It was the warmest May and June across Canada on record. That record warmth spread into parts of northern Minnesota. 

The Twin Cities just wrapped up our third warmest and second driest June on record. 

Recording less than an inch of rainfall in June in Minnesota is hard to do. June is the wettest month of the year climatologically in Minnesota. 

The Twin Cities averages around 4.5 inches of rain in June, so our rainfall deficit at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was about 3.5 inches just last month. 

The recent widespread record warmth is increasing the odds of 2023 going down as the warmest year on record globally. 

There is now a 54 percent chance that this will be the warmest year on record globally, according to scientist Robert Rohde at the University of California, Berkeley. The rapidly developing El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean may be adding to the ongoing global warming effect.

We could see more global records this month.

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