Monday was the world's hottest day on record after it inched past Sunday's high as swaths of Europe, Asia and North America experienced blistering temperatures.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service says the global average surface air temperature on July 22 rose to 17.15 degrees Celsius – or 0.06 degrees Celsius higher than the record set just a day earlier.
The director of the European Union's climate monitor says the event is still ongoing and it is possible the date of the peak may still change, but data suggest there could be slightly lower temperatures in the next few days.
The previous record set on July 6, 2023, at 17.08 degrees Celsius, was part of a long streak of record-breaking daily global average temperatures in July and August that year.
Since July 3, 2023, there have been 57 days that have exceeded that previous record.
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