The planet recorded on July 22, for the second day in a row, a record high temperature

July 22 was the second consecutive warmest day on record worldwide, according to preliminary data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Agency, narrowly edging out Sunday, July 21, which took the top spot just yesterday. The global average surface air temperature on Monday reached 17.15 degrees Celsius, 0.06 degrees higher than Sunday’s record, according to the agency, which has been tracking such trends since 1940. The previous record set by had been broken was for four consecutive days in early July 2023. Before that the hottest day had occurred in August 2016. “Last Monday may have set a new world record for the highest average temperature on record and by that I mean going back tens of thousands of years,” said climate scientist Carsten Hostein of the University of Leipzig in Germany. In recent days cities in Japan, Indonesia and China have […]
Source: News Beast

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