July 22 becomes the hottest day on record, breaking the record set the day before

Monday (July 22) was the hottest day on record worldwide since records began in 1940, the European Copernicus network said on Wednesday (July 24), breaking a record set the day before. The first data from Copernicus showed a global average temperature of 17.15°C on Monday, 0.06°C warmer than on Sunday.

Copernicus, which uses satellite data to estimate air and sea temperatures in near real time, said its figures were provisional and final values ​​could differ very slightly.

The European network had predicted that daily records would be broken this summer in the northern hemisphere and that the planet would endure a particularly long period of intense heat due to climate change.“This is exactly what climate science predicted would happen in a situation where we continue to burn coal, oil and gas.”reacted Joyce Kimutai, a climatologist at Imperial College London, on Wednesday.

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