According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, Sunday, July 21, 2024 was the hottest day on Earth since at least 1940, with the average temperature being 17.09°C. The new record is only a tiny bit hotter than the previous record — 0.01°C hotter to be precise — but what really stands out is the difference between the temperatures since July 2023 and all previous years. The data can be explored in Climate Pulse, the C3S application that provides historical and near real-time temperature data from the ERA5 reanalysis dataset. Before July 2023, the previous daily global average temperature record was 16.8°C, set on August 13, 2016. Since July 3, 2023, there have been 57 days that have exceeded that previous record, distributed between July and August 2023 and then during June and July so far in 2024. READ FULL ARTICLE