While we were already shocked reading how this year July 3 broke a record made in August 2016 and became the hottest day ever recorded, we walked in on another news story. Yes, the record for the hottest day in the world was broken in just 24 hours. July 4 has been declared the hottest day in the world after it crossed the previous record of 17.01 degrees Celsius.
July 4: World’s Hottest Day
According to information from the U.S. National Centres for Environmental Prediction, Tuesday was the hottest day on Earth since records first began in 1979, with the global average temperature reaching 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius).
Scientists now think that July 4 may have been the hottest day on record for almost 125,000 years as a result of a dangerous trifecta of rising global temperatures brought on by climate change, the reemergence of the El Nino phenomenon, and the start of summer in the northern hemisphere.
On Monday, July 3, the global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius, breaking the record of 16.92 degrees Celsius. But then, the temperatures soar again by 0.17 on Tuesday, July 4, smashing the record in 24 hours.
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Hottest Temperature In Britain Ever
Using information from weather stations, ships, ocean buoys, and satellites, a model was used to determine the average air temperature over the globe on Tuesday. Climate expert Paulo Ceppi works at the Grantham Institute in London.
With anticipated highs of around 40°C, July is shaping up to be the “hottest ever” on British soil.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Britain was 40.3 degrees Celsius in London in July of last year, but William Hill scientists now say this summer could be even hotter. (As per Washington Post and Daily Star)
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