On Monday July 3rd was the warmest day globally since there are measurements, surpassing for the first time the threshold of 17 ºC on averageaccording to data released this Tuesday by a US meteorological agency.
The average air temperature on the surface of planet Earth on July 3 was 17.01 ºC, according to measurements by an agency dependent on the United States Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The measure exceeds the previous daily record (16.92 ºC) set on July 24, 2022, according to data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Forecasting, dating back to 1979.
According to NOAA, the air temperature, which ranges between 12ºC and 17ºC approximately on average daily during the year, was -on average- 16.20ºC at the beginning of July between 1979 and 2000.
the record will have to be corroborated by other measurementsbut could be whipped up quicklybecause the boreal summer is just beginning.
At the beginning of June the world average temperatures They were already the highest ever recorded. in that period by the European Copernicus service.
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