New Record, July 22, 2024 Hottest Day in History

JAKARTA – Planet Earth just set a new record. Hottest day on planet Earth has been solved in history. Exactly on July 22, 2024, climate scientists discovered highest temperature .

According to the latest climate data, Earth has just experienced its hottest day. Study Finds reported, Friday (27/7/2024) on July 22, 2024, Earth’s daily global average temperature soared to 17.16°C. Data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) set a new record because it beat the planet’s previous temperature record of 17.09°C.

The previous record was set the day before, on July 21, 2024. This means that Earth has just experienced the two hottest days in history.

It’s important to understand what global average temperatures are. Imagine taking the temperature at every point on the Earth’s surface — from the scorching Sahara to the frigid Antarctic — and averaging all those readings together. That’s essentially what scientists do to calculate this number.

The new record is part of a worrying trend. Before July 2023, the highest daily global average temperature was 16.8°C, recorded on August 13, 2016. Since then, that record has been broken 59 times in just over a year.

“What is truly surprising is how big the difference is between the last 13 months of temperatures and previous temperature records. We are now in truly uncharted territory and as the climate continues to warm, we will surely see new records broken in the months and years to come,” said Carlo Buontempo, C3S Director, in a press release.

Researchers found several factors play a role in warming temperatures. Global temperatures typically peak between late June and early August, which coincides with the Northern Hemisphere summer, when most of Earth’s land is warm. Land heats faster than water, so large northern continents push the global average up during this time.

However, this year there is more to the story. Scientists observed unusually high temperatures across much of Antarctica. While this may seem counter-intuitive since Antarctica is supposed to be cold, temperature spikes like this are not uncommon during the Antarctic winter. This warm anomaly significantly contributed to the record-breaking global temperatures.