Alarm bells have been rung at the UN agency in particular because of an "unprecedented peak" in sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. "The first week of July…could be considered as the warmest period or the warmest week ever recorded," with a global average temperature close to 17.24 degrees Celsius on 7 July, said Omar Baddour, Chief of Climate Monitoring at WMO . Unprecedented is new normal The WMO expert added that daily June temperatures in the North Atlantic had been "dramatically high" compared to usual readings, while Antarctic sea ice levels reached their lowest extent for June since satellite observations began.

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