Average global temperature hit 17.18C on Tuesday (4 July) and experts expect record to be broken again very soon, EURACTIV’s media partner, The Guardian, reports. Until the start of this week, the hottest day on record was in 2016, during the last El Niño global weather event, when the global average temperature reached 16.92C. 📈 According to preliminary data from the #ERA5 dataset, the global average 2m #temperature reached 16.88°C on Monday, breaking the previous record of 16.80°C from August 2016. Experts predicted that, combined with the increased heat from anthropogenic global heating, it would lead to more record-breaking temperatures. Ukraine’s Vernadsky research base, in the vast frozen continent’s Argentine Islands, recently broke its July temperature record with a reading of 8.7C.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 06, 2023 11:59 UTC