Global Heatwave: Hottest Ever Recorded July

July was the hottest month on record worldwide, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday. NOAA also said that 2015 so far is the hottest year since the agency began keeping records in 1880. The average global temperature for July was 16.6 degrees Celsius, up 0.09 degrees Celsius from the previous record, set in 1998. Nine of the 10 warmest months on record have occurred in the last 10 years. Source: The Week/Voice of America