Global Daily Temperature: A Record for the Second Consecutive Day

July, was the hottest mounth ever recorded globally, surpassing the previous day’s record, according to initial measurements by a US weather observatory on Wednesday.

Global temperatures have been consistently reaching unprecedented levels almost daily since early June, reports AFP.

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On July 4th, the average air temperature at the Earth’s surface was measured at 17.18°C by an organization affiliated with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This measurement significantly exceeds the 17.01°C recorded on Monday, which already surpassed the previous daily record of 16.92°C set on August 14, 2016, and repeated on July 24, 2022, according to data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction, dating back to 1979.

The air temperature, which typically ranges between approximately 12°C and 17°C on a daily average throughout the year, averaged 16.20°C in early July between 1979 and 2000, according to this measurement system.

The European observatory Copernicus, contacted by AFP, stated on Wednesday that their “preliminary measurements for Monday, July 3rd, confirmed it was the hottest” in their ERA5 database since 1940, but data for July 4th was not yet available.

Rising temperatures on the horizon

These records, still to be verified, are likely to be broken again soon as the Northern Hemisphere enters its summer season, and the global average temperature generally continues to rise until late July or early August.

In early June, global average temperatures were already the highest ever recorded for that period, according to the European service Copernicus, surpassing previous records by a “substantial margin.”