The world record for the warmest day was only set on Sunday. However, it was broken again. And that after just one day! This is according to preliminary data from the EU climate change service Copernicus. The global average surface temperature rose to 17.15 degrees Celsius – on Sunday it was 17.09 degrees.
The average surface temperature on Monday was 0.06 degrees higher than on Sunday. The previous record was previously measured at 17.08 degrees Celsius on July 6, 2023 (see graph below). Previously, the record for the global daily average temperature was 16.8 degrees Celsius on August 13, 2016.
However, since July 3, 2023, there have been 57 days where the 2016 record was exceeded, spread across the months of July and August 2023 and June and July 2024.
“Last Monday may have set a new world record for the warmest absolute global average temperature ever—and by that I mean tens of thousands of years ago,” said climate researcher Karsten Haustein of the University of Leipzig in Germany. The record was last set on four consecutive days in early July 2023. Before that, the warmest day was in August 2016.
“We are in uncharted territory”
Director Carlo Buontempo said: “We are now in uncharted territory, and as the climate continues to warm, we will certainly see new records broken in the months and years ahead.”
Relationship with temperatures in Antarctica
According to Copernicus, the sudden increase in the average daily temperature on Earth is linked to well above average temperatures in large parts of Antarctica. In addition, the extent of Antarctic sea ice is almost as small as it was this time last year. This leads to well above average temperatures in parts of the Southern Ocean.
The European Union’s climate change service, Copernicus, regularly publishes data on surface temperatures, sea ice cover and precipitation. The findings are based on computer-generated analyses that incorporate billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world. The data used goes back to 1950, but earlier data is also available.
Source: Krone
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