July 22 second day in row to break global heat record: EU monitor

Preliminary data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) showed the daily global average temperature was 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, the warmest day in recorded history. This was 0.06C hotter than the day before on July 21, which itself broke by a small margin the all-time high temperature set only a year before. "This is exactly what climate science told us would happen if the world continued burning coal, oil and gas," said Joyce Kimutai, a climate scientist from Imperial College London, on Wednesday.