The planet hit its warmest day ever recorded Monday, researchers said, before that record was shattered just 24 hours later on July 4.
Average global temperatures touched 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit (or 17.01 degrees Celsius) on July 3, which surpassed the August 2016 record of 62.46 degrees Fahrenheit and is the first time the 44-year dataset has surpassed 17 degrees Celsius, the Associated Press reported.
That new record, however, was short-lived. Temperatures reached nearly 17.2 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, according to early data from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
Those readings are taken from federal forecast simulations and are not based on ground temperature reports. Still, the tools is often used to offer a glimpse of the world’s climate.
Currently considered preliminary, the data — registered by entities such as the United States National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Climate Reanalyzer Project — will need to be verified by climate agencies, including as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Additionally, the NOAA typically uses longer-term measurements to determine thresholds for new records. While the Climate Reanalyzer, for example, bases its data on a dataset extending back to 1979, NOAA data goes back to 1880.
The findings offer a stark picture of the Earth’s insidious warming triggered by human-induced climate change and the emergence of an El Niño weather pattern, which is marked by warmer-than-normal ocean surface temperatures. Forecasts indicated Wednesday would likely again register record-setting temperatures.
A heat dome in the Southern U.S. has delivered dangerously-hot temperatures across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Elsewhere, a heat wave has struck the Pacific Northwest, with temperatures expected to surpass 100 degrees on Wednesday. Record-setting temperatures have also been recorded from parts of Quebec, Canada, to Peru, reports said.
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