Last Sunday the Global Temperature Reached the Highest Figure in Years
Zaragosa, Spain, one of the hottest citites this summer, July 2024 Photo: EFE
July 23, 2024 Hour: 4:36 pm
The earth recorded on Sunday, July 21 an average of 17.09 degrees of temperature, which represents a new record that exceeds the 17.08 degrees of July 6, 2023, reported on Tuesday in Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU’s Earth Observation program.
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Preliminary data points to the Sunday being the hottest day since at least 1940. In fact, before July 2023, the previous record of daily global average temperature was 16.8 degrees on 13 August 2016.
Since July 3, 2023 there have been 57 days that have surpassed that previous record, distributed between July and August of 2023 and during June and July in what goes for 2024.
“On July 21, C3S recorded a new record for the global daily mean temperature. What’s really amazing is the big difference between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous record temperatures. We are now in truly uncharted territory and as the weather continues to warm, we are likely to see new records in the coming months and years”He said of the director of C3S, Carlos Buontempo, according to a statement.
The analysis of years with the highest global annual daily maxima shows that both in 2023 and 2024 there have been annual maxima substantially higher than The Commission has not yet taken any action to this end.
Another sign of the global warming trend is the fact that the ten years with the highest daily average temperatures are the last ten years, from 2015 to 2024.
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Fuente: EFE
