{"id":802887,"date":"2026-07-02T04:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802887"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:29:30","slug":"mediterranean-sea-breaks-june-surface-heat-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802887","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean Sea breaks June surface heat record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>This image shows the sea surface temperature anomaly detected in the Mediterranean Sea on 29 June 2026, compared to the average for the period 1991-2020, with dark red indicating temperatures that exceed the average by up to 8\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>The highest average temperature increases are seen off the coast of southern France and around the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and around the Italian peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Data for the image is high-resolution sea surface temperature data provided by the Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) for 29 June 2026. This is compared to data for 1991-2020 from a satellite-derived dataset created by the European Space Agency&#8217;s Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI).<\/p>\n<p>The global average sea surface temperature has passed the records set in June 2023 and June 2024, according to data from the European Union\u2019s Copernicus Earth observation programme.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking temperatures were announced today by Copernicus, in a statement that pinpointed Sunday, 21 June, as the day when global sea surface temperatures surpassed the daily averages in past years, with temperatures reaching 21\u00b0C \u2013 a 0.1 \u00b0C increase on previous records.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/07\/Mediterranean_Sea_breaks_June_surface_heat_record?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image shows the sea surface temperature anomaly detected in the Mediterranean Sea on 29 June 2026, compared to the average for the period 1991-2020, with dark red indicating temperatures&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/802888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}