According to the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) July was the hottest month ever recorded in history.

The second month of summer averaged 61.9 F, a temperature that is 0.08 degrees higher than the previous record, which was set back in July 1998.

Scientists at NOAA have released a report that says they fully expect 2015 to be the hottest year on record. The report indicates that nine out of the 10 hottest months, since the temperatures started being recorded in 1880, have happened since 2005.

Last month marked the 39th consecutive July wherein the global temperature was above average.

Jake Crouch, a scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, said, "The world is warming. It is continuing to warm. That is being shown time and time again in our data." As reported by the BBC, Crouch added that, "Now that we are fairly certain that 2015 will be the warmest year on record, it is time to start looking at what are the impacts of that? What does that mean for people on the ground?"

In general, July is the hottest month of the year anyway, but this year the month was a scorcher worldwide.  USA Today has reported that in Austria, several cities observed their highest temperatures ever in the 249-years that nation has been keeping records. Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom all broke heat records in July as well.

The United States, along with some portions of Western Asia, did not suffer extreme heat. Crouch credits El Niño with adding warming factors that affected the already warming earth.

University of Arizona climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck took to Twitter inform his followers that “Global temperatures during July and year-to-date both broke previous records."

Overpeck added, “El Niño + AGW [Anthropogenic Global Warming] = HOT.”