For the second day in a row, the planet experienced the hottest day on record, according to preliminary data from Copernicus, the European climate change service, UNN reports citing ABC News.
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The average daily global temperature on Earth reached 17.15 degrees Celsius on Monday, July 22, setting a new record for the warmest day in the organization's dataset, which began recording in 1940.
This surpasses the previous record of 17.09 degrees Celsius set the day before, Copernicus said in an updated report on Wednesday.
According to Copernicus, all ten of the highest annual maximum daily average temperatures on record have occurred in the last 10 years. The data show that several years from 2015 to 2024 not only set new records, but also broke them by a wide margin.
The warmest days on Earth on record:
1. July 22, 2024: 17.15 degrees Celsius.
2. July 21, 2024: 17.09 degrees Celsius.
3. July 6, 2023: 17.08 degrees Celsius.
4. August 13, 2016: 16.80 degrees Celsius.
The average global temperature usually peaks between late July and early August.
According to Copernicus, the Earth has experienced record global temperatures for 13 consecutive months.
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