In 2024, Earth experienced the hottest day ever measured, breaking the previous record by a tiny fraction of a degree, set a day earlier. Europe’s Copernicus climate service calculated through satellite observations that the average global temperature on July 22 was 62.76 degrees Fahrenheit. The planet’s average temperature was also 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) warmer than in preindustrial times across an entire year for the first time on record. The period from February 2023 to January 2024 reached 1.52 degrees Celsius of warming. adapted with permission from Earthweek.com<div></div><br>