The Planet Cooled In June; Europe Maps The Heat Island; Hokkaido Joins The July Chill; + Rare Coastal Snow As South America Freezes

Europe’s red heat maps show the Urban Heat Island effect, not cLiMaTe ChAnGe.

Planet Cooled In June

For all the media’s huffing and puffing over western Europe’s “climate-change heatwave,” the planet cooled in June.

UAH’s satellite-based lower troposphere record has June 2026 at +0.46C above the norm, down from +0.53C in May — a clear monthly fall all while headlines tried to turn one regional European hot spell into proof of a planetary catastrophe.

According to a World Weather Attribution report — and dutifully recycled by the usual activist rags — western Europe’s recent heatwave was “impossible without the climate crisis.”

Reuters led with the same line, adding that the “soaring night-time temperatures” were made 100 times more likely. The Guardian went further, calling it the “worst ever and impossible without climate crisis,” and claiming the heat was “only possible because of fossil-fuel burning.” Euronews warned that “climate change is running rampant,” while El País spelled out the sermon in its headline: “It’s not just hot, it’s climate change.” Etc. Etc. Etc.

The European heat was real. But it was weather. It was circulation. That is what blocking highs do.

Overall, the planet cooled 0.07C in June.

Europe Maps The Heat Island

The European Commission itself just posted this map:

During last week’s heatwave, says the Commission, Copernicus satellites recorded a land-surface temperature gap of about 23C between urban areas and nearby forests. In Belgium, sealed surfaces around Brussels reached 47.4C (117.3F) while the adjacent Sonian Forest sat near 24.5C (76.1F).