Yesterday, Monday, July 3rd, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius, 62.62 Fahrenheit, surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92 celsius or 62.46 Farenheit as heat-waves sizzled around the world.
The southern U.S. has been suffering under an intense heat dome in recent weeks.
In China, an enduring heat-wave continued, with temperatures above 35 Celsius or 95 degrees Farenheit.
North Africa has seen temperatures near 50 Celcius, 122 Farenheit.
And even Antarctica, currently in its winter, registered anomalously high temperatures.
Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base in the white continent’s Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7 Celsius or 47.6 Farenheit.
Climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Britain’s Imperial College London said “This is not a milestone we should be celebrating. It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems.”
Scientists said climate change, combined with an emerging El Nino pattern, were to blame.
