The monthly average beat the previous record from July 2015 by 0.2 degrees Celsius and is 2.7 degrees higher than the long-term average for July
Captain Kirk of "Star Trek", alias veteran actor William Shatner (pictured), became the oldest person to go into space at 90
According to the NOAA, the average global temperature in July was 0.95 deg Celsius (1.71 deg Fahrenheit) above the 20th century average of 15.8 deg Celsius (60.4 Fahrenheit)
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Last month was 0.88 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean May temperature from 1951-198