July 2023 was the hottest month in recorded history around the globe, according to climate experts around the world.
The average temperature for the first three weeks of July tracked significantly higher than the record set in 2019.
It also found 21 of Earth's 30 hottest individual days on record have occurred in July.
Beachgoers were seen at Bronte Beach in Sydney on an exceptionally warm winter's day on July 30, 2023.
While there were some cold snaps and dry spells through July, According to the Bureau of Meteorology, it was still warmer than the average winter.
Across the country Temperatures were 2-8C above the July average for most of Australia.
But a mild Australian winter was nowhere close to the devastating heat felt across the Earth's northern hemisphere.
Rangers posed for pictures with a thermometer showing temperatures reaching 56 degrees in Death Valley, California.
More than 1500 record-high temperatures were recorded in the US this month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Over 35 daily high-temperature records were broken on Sunday alone, according to the weather service.
Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Corpus Christi and Brownsville, Texas; and Tampa and Fort Myers, Florida, are all having their hottest Julys on record to date, according to NOAA climate data.
Alongside a "heat dome" that beat down across the United states, deadly wildfires raged across Canada and northern USA.
Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada, Sunday, July 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Like all natural disasters, the savage heatwaves across the world hit the most vulnerable people the hardest.
Kristin Peterson tries to cool off with a cold bandana at Sonrise Homeless Navigation Center in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday July 11, 2023, during a heat advisory with temperatures expected to top 37.7 degrees.
It wasn't just people but also pets feeling the heat.
A woman used water to cool off her dog during a sweltering day in the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut on July 20.
At the peak of the European Summer, dozens of Greek islands, and parts of Algeria erupted in flames.
A local reacted as the flames burn trees in Gennadi village, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
A firefighting plane had crashed in southern Greece, killing both crew members, as authorities battled fires across the country amid heat wave temperatures.
A man stood ready to fight flames as they engulf a hillside in Apollana, Rhodes.
A firefighter used a bottle to drop water over a burnt plant as the flames approach Vati.
An aerial view of houses that remained standing amid burned land on Rhodes.
A military helicopter in the air as flames burn a forest on the mountains near Vati.
Across Southern and Eastern Asia, it wasn't fires, but floods which slammed millions of people.
A private car warehouse became submerged in flood water from River Hindon following excessive rains, in Greater Noida, out skirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 26, 2023.
A deadly typhoon made its destructive landfall in the Philippines, forcing villagers to swim through neck-deep floodwaters to reach safety.
Typhoon Doksuri blew ashore in a cluster of islands and lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain.
Floodwater rescues unfolded after the deluge.
Here, pigs were carefully ushered inside boats as they are evacuated to safer grounds.
China's National Meteorological Center raised its typhoon emergency warning to the highest level and authorities told fishing boats to return to port immediately.
Farmers were also warned to take preventive measures to avoid flooding of crops.
An aerial view shows flooding in Fuzhou after Typhoon Doksuri made landfall and brought heavy rainfall, in Fujian province, China July 29, 2023.