Hottest Day on Record

[GordMay]

Monday, July 22/24, was recorded as the hottest day, in the past 120,000 years, beating a record, set the day before, as countries across the globe, from Japan to Bolivia, to the United States, continue to feel the heat, according to the European Copernicus climate change service [C3S].

Provisional satellite data [1], published by Copernicus, early on Wednesday, showed that Monday broke the previous day's record, by 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.1 degree Fahrenheit).

Copernicus’ preliminary data shows the global average temperature Monday was 17.15 degrees Celsius, or 62.87 degrees Fahrenheit. The previous record, before this week, was set just a year ago. Before last year, the previous recorded hottest day was in 2016, when average temperatures were at 16.8 degrees Celsius, or 62.24 degrees Fahrenheit.

[1] C3S Climate Pulse ➥ https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

See also ➥ https://apnews.com/article/global-he...68bda60ed2bf31

[OldManMirage]

Who was taking those temp readings 120,000 years ago ?

[Benz]

Originally Posted by OldManMirage

Who was taking those temp readings 120,000 years ago ?

It only takes the teensiest bit of extrapolation to gather data for a couple weeks and know for sure what it was doing Xmillion years ago. Didn't you know? That's how science works nowadays.....

[Mike OReilly]

From a news article covering the story:

“Copernicus records go back to 1940, but other global measurements by the United States and United Kingdom governments go back even further, to 1880. Many scientists, taking those into consideration along with tree rings and ice cores, say last year's record highs were the hottest the planet has been in about 120,000 years. Now the first six months of 2024 have broken even those.”

But if you really want understand, you can go to the source https://climate.copernicus.eu/summer...hottest-record

[GordMay]

Scientists use long-term proxy measurements, like tree rings, and ice cores, which aren’t precise; so, let’s revise the opening headline statement to read “the hottest day, ever measured by humans.” [my original thread title was accurate]
As Mike noted, Copernicus records go back to 1940*, but other global measurements, by the United States and United Kingdom, governments go back even further, to at least 1880.

* There have been more than 30,500 days, since Copernicus data started, in 1940, and this was the hottest of all of them.
Make of it, what you will [maybe Sol/Ra/Helios/Apollo/Ba'al/Mithra/whoever had an orgasm], but it remains a fact.

[bgallinger]

You would never know it was the hottest day in 120,000 years up here in Northern Ontario! It's been cold as hell, so I say, bring on the global warming!