The world has just experienced the second-hottest May since records began, as climate change and the developing El Niño weather pattern combined to push up average land and sea temperatures, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said Wednesday.

Last month was the second-hottest May on record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has revealed.

The average global temperature last month was 1.42 degrees Celsius above the average in 19th-century pre-industrial times