Monday’s day was the hottest ever measured in the world, surpassing the average of 17 degrees Celsius (ºC) for the first time, according to the first measurements taken on Tuesday by a North American agency.
The average daily air temperature on the surface of the planet on July 3 was measured at 17.01°C by a service dependent on the US Atmospheric and Oceanic Agency (NOAA).
This exceeds the previous daily record of 16.92°C set on July 24, 2022, according to NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Prediction, which dates back to 1979.
The air temperature, which ranges from 12ºC to 17ºC on average throughout the year, was 16.20ºC in early July between 1979 and 2000.
This record, which has yet to be confirmed by other measures, can be quickly surpassed when the summer season begins in the Northern Hemisphere and the average global temperature continues to rise, usually until the end of July and the beginning of August.
As early as early June, global average temperatures were the highest ever recorded by the European Copernicus service for that period, beating previous records by a “significant margin”.
These observations are likely a foretaste of what is to come with the phenomenon called El Niño (The Boy) in Castilian, which is usually associated with global warming, supplemented by human-induced climate warming effects.
On June 8, NOAA announced the official arrival of O Menino, ensuring that “it could lead to new temperature records” in some regions.
Several records were broken in Asia in June, while the United Kingdom had the hottest month of Juno ever recorded, and Mexico was hit by an extreme heat wave.
According to the World Meteorological Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, there is a 66 percent chance that global mean surface temperatures will temporarily exceed pre-industrial levels by 1.5ºC in one month between 2023 and 2027.
2022 was the eighth year in a row that global average temperatures were at least one degree higher than levels observed between 1850 and 1900.