The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for June (+0.37 °C) was up from May 2012 (+0.29 °C).  Click on the image for the super-sized version:

The 4th order polynomial fit to the data (courtesy of Excel) is for entertainment purposes only, and should not be construed as having any predictive value whatsoever.
Here are the monthly stats:
    YR  MON  GLOBAL   NH    SH    TROPICS
    2011   01  -0.010  -0.055   +0.036  -0.372
    2011   02  -0.020  -0.042   +0.002  -0.348
    2011   03  -0.101  -0.073  -0.128  -0.342
    2011   04   +0.117   +0.195   +0.039  -0.229
    2011   05   +0.133   +0.145   +0.121  -0.043
    2011   06   +0.315   +0.379   +0.250   +0.233
    2011   07   +0.374   +0.344   +0.404   +0.204
    2011   08   +0.327   +0.321   +0.332   +0.155
    2011   09   +0.289   +0.304   +0.274   +0.178
    2011   10   +0.116   +0.169   +0.062  -0.054
    2011   11   +0.123   +0.075   +0.170   +0.024
    2011   12   +0.126   +0.197   +0.055   +0.041
    2012    1  -0.089  -0.058  -0.120  -0.137
    2012    2  -0.111  -0.014  -0.209  -0.276
    2012    3   +0.111   +0.129   +0.094  -0.106
    2012    4   +0.299   +0.413   +0.185  -0.117
    2012    5   +0.292   +0.444   +0.141  +0.033
    2012    6   +0.369   +0.540   +0.199  +0.140
As a reminder, the most common reason for large month-to-month swings in global average temperature is small fluctuations in the rate of convective overturning of the troposphere, discussed here.

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