Last Sunday was the hottest day in all recorded history on Earth, a European climate agency announced, saying the global average temperature of 17.09º C/62.76º F topped records dating back to at least 1880, the Associated Press reports. Sunday beat the previous record, set last year, by just 0.1º C, but that smashed the previous record high day in 2016 that came in at 16.8º C.
“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records,” the head of climate group Copernicus said in a statement. “We are now in truly uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years.”