LONDON: The increasing temperature shattered the record for the hottest day of the year for the second day in a row, as the world continues to reel from the different repercussions of worsening climate change.
A European Union monitoring agency’s preliminary data indicates that Monday, July 22, was the hottest day ever recorded as the average worldwide surface air temperature surpassed that of Sunday, July 21.
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which has been monitoring temperature trends since 1940, the temperature was 17.15°C, which is 0.06°C higher than what was reported on Sunday.
Early in July 2023, the record was last broken for four days in a succession. August 2016 was the hottest day prior to that.
“This past Monday might have set a new global record for warmest absolute global average temperature ever—by that I mean going back tens of thousands of years,” according to German climate scientist Karsten Haustein of Leipzig University.
Cities in China, Indonesia, and Japan have seen record temperatures in recent days. Gulf nations have also suffered from heat indices above 60°C when humidity is taken into account.
In the meantime, temperatures have risen above 45°C in certain regions of Europe.
