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NASA (GISS) and Japan Meteorological Agency both reckon 2019 was hottest June on global record
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v4/GLB.Ts+dSST.txtJune 2019 was 93/100 of a degree C above the average - previous highest June was 82/100 in 2016.
https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/jun_wld.html
"The monthly anomaly of the global average surface temperature in June 2019 (i.e. the average of the near-surface air temperature over land and the SST) was +0.45°C above the 1981-2010 average (+0.80°C above the 20th century average), and was the warmest since 1891" - 2015 and 2016 were both +0.41°C.
We are in a minor El Nino, rather than the major 2014-16 one that produced those previous highs.