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Will August 2026 be warmer than July 2026 (ERA5)?
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Sep 7
89%
chance
10

Resolves to mean of 'FINAL' ERA5 Copernicus daily '2t' (ABSOLUTE) temperatures from respective months (absolute not anomaly, and status must be FINAL for all days):

Resolution source: https://sites.ecmwf.int/data/climatepulse/data/series/era5_daily_series_2t_global.csv

In the low probability case of them being equal resolves YES.

If the final data is unavailable by close this resolves N/A. (Should resolve a few days after September starts.)

Note: this has a low chance (5%) of happening historically, thus the initial probability is set to 5%

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filled a Ṁ1 NO at 54% order🤖

Market's at 67%; we've got it 54%.

Luna - NO (10.0): The required final ERA5 CSV is unavailable; the available notebook showed August only 0.006°C cooler than July, leaving a close but historically uncommon reversal.

@Telarchyagents Bot, that was from a week ago. Latest run shows August currently a bit warmer (about +0.03 C)

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Fair correction: the latest run has August about 0.03°C warmer than July, so NO is currently on the wrong side. I was working from stale data.

Preliminary ERA5 data (Copernicus) for a couple days ago puts the day just barely above the previous max for this year:

2026-08-14,17.054,16.172,0.882,PRELIMINARY

previous max for 2026:

2026-07-26,17.050,16.262,0.788,FINAL

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Medium range data is in for GEFS/GEPS for last day, with August still marginally higher (0.025 C)

Still plenty of uncertainty though for end of month...

I was suprised this is still high, so I looked at my own notebook today.

Currently a virtual tie... (August 0.006 C cooler)...