This measurement data is 0.01 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record measured on July 6, 2023. At the same time, the Copernicus statement did not rule out that this new record could also be broken in the coming days – as a result of the heat wave affecting parts of the United States and Europe.
“As the climate continues to warm, we will certainly set new records in the coming months and years,” said Carlo Bontempo, director of Copernicus, describing the difference between temperatures over the past 13 months and previous temperature records as shocking.
“The measurement data also point to global warming, with the ten-year period with the highest average daily temperature being the last ten years, from 2015 to 2024,” the report said. Before the 2023 record, the global average daily temperature peaked on August 13, 2016, at 16.8 degrees Celsius, but since July 3 last year, that record has been broken for 57 days.
Copernicus announced two weeks ago that June 2024 was “warmer than any previous June since records began,” with the global average reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The climate change monitoring service also warned that the global average temperature in June was a record high for the 13th month in a row.
