Sunday was the world's hottest day on record, data says
Data tracking for temperatures dates back to the mid-1900s.
By Chelsea Ambriz • Published 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago

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The hottest day ever recorded on the planet happened this past Sunday, July 21, coming in at 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit (17.09 degrees Celsius).

The hottest day ever recorded on the planet was this past Sunday, July 21.

July 21, 2024 came in at 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit (17.09 degrees Celsius). It was the hottest day on Earth since at least 1940, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

The previous record was set last July, coming in at 17.08 degrees Celsius. Global climate records are typically broken by very small margins, fractions of a degree. In this case, it was just 0.01 degrees Celsius above 2023’s record.

This considers all the overnight temperatures and the afternoon temperatures averaged across the globe.

A new report from scientists at Climate Central, the Red Cross, and World Weather Attribution found that climate change added nearly a month’s worth of extremely hot days over the last year. Florida, Arizona, and Hawaii felt some of the biggest increases in heat waves driven by climate change domestically. National climate reporter Chase Cain explains what it could mean for this summer.
Locally, Miami tied the daily warm-low record of 82 degrees previously set last year (2023) on July 21. The afternoon daily high temp reached 93 degrees. In Fort Lauderdale, the day started at 80 degrees and topped out at 90 degrees, and neither broke daily records.

These were not record-breaking temps locally, but globally, the heat wave allowed for the record to be broken collectively.

Hundreds of cities across the United States have experienced record heat for an elongated period already this summer. This has been the hottest summer on record for the Western U.S. and the Northeast while global heat waves also hit Europe and Russia.

The global average temperatures are known to peak during the summer months in the northern hemisphere – June through August.

Before 2023, the warmest global temperature was 0.3 degrees cooler, which is significant.

Human-caused climate change has an increasing likelihood of record-breaking heat and continues to be a driving factor for other extreme weather events.

17 degrees C is not hot.     WTF?

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:01pm:



Thou hath started a thread with an obviously false premise.
Should it be deleted or sent to Fringe?

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:08pm:


Bobby, the temperature is the global average temperature. Its the highest-ever global average temperature.

Do you want a photo of Grappler and Gnads in shorts, together in the biblical sense, as evidence?

How else could one express global temperature without placing into service the missing, once-shiny, balls of Grappler's and Gnads' governors?

I am going to fall asleep in front of the tv. Get some much needed rest. Then up at midnight to do my assessment.

Last time the record was broken a lot of people died.