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Earth had its sixth-warmest July on record, with extreme dryness over Europe, the U.S. West, western Australia, and central South America, and extreme wetness over eastern Australia, east-central Africa, and parts of the Middle East.

On average, July is the United States hottest month of the year. But where did this July fall in the historical record? See highlights from the monthly U.S. summary from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

The August 2022 climate outlook favors a hotter-than-average month for much of the contiguous United States outside of the Southwest where the monsoon is expected to bring wetter and cooler-than-average conditions

El vórtice polar ártico es una banda de fuertes vientos del oeste que se forma en la estratosfera entre unos 15 y 30 kilómetros por encima del Polo Norte cada invierno. La posible influencia del comportamiento del vórtice polar ártico en la meteorología de otras regiones despierta cada vez más y más interés.

Through June, the U.S. area burned by wildfires in 2022 was more than double the long-term average.

The July 2022 Climate outlook favors a hotter-than-average month for much of the country with a continuation of the wet start to the North American monsoon across the Southwest.

As of 2022, the warming effect of long-lived greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere had increased by 49% compared to 1990. Relative to pre-industrial times, today's atmosphere absorbs more than 3 extra watts of energy per square meter.

May 2022 was the ninth-warmest May in the 143-year NOAA record. Despite La Niña, there's a greater than 99 percent chance that 2022 will rank among the 10 warmest years on record.

Summer-like heat felt across much of the South during May. Drought conditions improve for some, yet remain across much of the West.

The June climate outlook favors a hotter-than-average start to summer for the southern and eastern United States and a cooler-than-average June for the north-central and northwestern U.S.