AREQUIPA, Peru – The global average daily temperature reached 17.15 degrees Celsius (°C) this week, specifically on July 22, a new record in the ERA5 dataset of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
As reported the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), this figure exceeds the previous records of 17.09 °C, reached just one day earlier, on July 21, 2024, and 17.08 °C, reported a year ago, on July 6, 2023.
Before the long streak of record temperatures in July and August 2023, the highest daily global average temperature reported by ERA5 – one of the datasets used by WMO to monitor the Earth’s climate – was 16.80 °C on 13 August 2016, following a strong El Niño event.
For WMO Director of Climate Services Chris Hewitt, this new report “is noteworthy because we are no longer in a warm phase.” of El Niño and it has occurred during a prolonged period of extraordinary heat: June 2024 was the 13th consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures,” he said.
According to C3S director Carlo Buontempo, what is really astonishing is the huge difference between the temperature of the past 13 months and previous records.
We are now in truly uncharted territory and as we continue to the climate continues to warmwe are likely to see new records in the coming months and years, he noted.
Experts pointed to the fact that the 10 years with the highest average daily temperatures are the most recent ones, from 2015 to 2024, as another sign of the global warming trend.
Initial C3S analysis suggested that the increase in global mean daily temperature is likely related to very warm temperatures in large parts of Antarctica and parts of the Southern Ocean that are experiencing low sea ice cover.
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