June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won’t [Video]

By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

Earth’s more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service Copernicus.

There’s hope that the planet will soon see an end to the record-setting part of the heat streak, but not the climate chaos that has come with it, scientists said.