If Sunday was already hot, Monday was even hotter. Temperature records are being broken and the outlook for the future is not positive.
World temperatures reached the hottest levels ever measured on Monday, July 29, beating the record set just a day earlier.
Provisional data published on Wednesday by the Copernicus Climate Change Monitoring Service, which gathers data dating back to 1940, shows that the global surface air temperature reached 17.15 °C, compared to 17.09 °C on Sunday.
The record prior to this week was set a year ago, on July 6th. Before that, the previous hottest day on record was in 2016.
Since June 2023, every month has been classified as the hottest on the planet since records began. Experts believe that 2024 could overtake 2023 as the hottest year ever.
Marta Cerqueira is from Minho and a vegetarian. Luckily, she lives in Lisbon, where there is more tofu than sarrabulho. She has been a journalist for over 15 years, the last of which writing about food and sustainability. Now, out of the newsroom, she continues to write whenever she can, be it in magazines, journals, post its, or on her Instagram page, which she uses to share a life divided between being a mom-person-foodie-traveler. Still, she created Peggada so she could write about what doesn't fit in a magazine, journal, post it or Instagram: a better world.
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