World’s hottest day recorded on Sunday, climate monitor says
Al Jazeera
Global average surface air temperature was 17.09 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service says.
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The global average surface air temperature on Sunday reached 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit), the warmest since records began in 1940, the EU climate monitor said in a statement on Tuesday.
The new high slightly exceeded the previous record set in July last year of 17.08C (62.74F), it said.
“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records. We are now in truly uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years,” the EU climate monitor’s director, Carlo Buontempo, said in a statement.
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