This is reported by NASA, citing data from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

"This July was much warmer than any previous July and any previous month on record since 1880," said Gavin Schmidt, director of the institute.

He noted that this reflects a long-term trend of sharp warming of air temperature.

Earlier, the head of the situation center of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, Yuri Varakin, on the air of Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, said that the heat would return to the Moscow region to +29 ° C this week.