Monday was the hottest day on record
and 20 people died as a result in Morocco
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Our planet exceeded high temperature records twice in 24 hours, which is having catastrophic effects.
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Our feature story this week is on how scientists measure whether a day is the hottest day ever. Learn about both below!
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Monday was the warmest day recorded on Earth. But how do scientists actually measure that?
*Originally written by Andrew King for The Conversation.
In the past week, Earth’s record for the hottest day was broken twice. Sunday July 21 was declared Earth’s hottest day since records began, when average surface temperature reached 17.09°C. On Monday the record fell again, when average temperatures reached 17.16°C – and Tuesday was almost as hot.
The declarations were made by Copernicus, the European climate change service. They made international headlines – especially in the northern hemisphere, which has been experiencing extreme summer heat.
Determining the global average temperature on any given day is complex. It involves thousands of observations using high-tech equipment and in some cases, sophisticated computer models.
So let’s take at look at how scientists take the planet’s temperature, and what these broken records mean.
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