2023-07-06 05:47:19
On the day of July 4, the average air temperature on the surface of the planet was measured at 17.18°C.
Posted on 07/06/2023 07:47 Updated on 07/06/2023 08:22
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A woman protects herself from the blazing sun in the center of Athens (Greece), July 5, 2023. (NIKOLAS KOKOVLIS / NURPHOTO / AFP)
Disturbing records follow one another. Tuesday July 4 was the hottest day ever measured globally, largely beating the record set the day before, according to preliminary measurements on Wednesday from an American meteorological observatory. During the day, the average air temperature on the surface of the planet was measured at 17.18°C by an organization dependent on the American Agency for Oceanic and Atmospheric Observation (NOAA), which however did not not yet given official confirmation for this day.
This measurement clearly exceeds the 17.01°C measured on Monday and which already beat by a significant margin the previous daily record (16.92°C), established on August 14, 2016 and repeated on July 24, 2022, according to these data produced by a model from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction of NOAA, and put online by researchers from the University of Maine (United States).
The El Niño phenomenon coupled with global warming
These records, which have yet to be substantiated, are likely to be broken once more soon as the Northern Hemisphere begins its summer season and the average global temperature generally continues to rise until late July-early August. Already in early June, global average temperatures were the hottest ever recorded for this period by the European Copernicus service, beating previous records with a “substantial margin”.
These observations are a probable foretaste of the El Niño phenomenon – generally associated with an increase in global temperatures – coupled with the effects of global warming caused by human activity. On June 8, NOAA announced the official arrival of El Niño, assuring that it “might lead to new temperature records” In certain regions.
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