July 21, 2024 Was Earth's Hottest Recorded Day!

It was an ordinary day.  Almost!!!  That is because on Sunday, July 21, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day EVER measured by humans, ... yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus on Tuesday.  Copernicus' preliminary data shows that the world-wide global average temperature this past Sunday was 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit), beating the record set just last year on July 6 by .01 degrees Celsius (.02 degrees Fahrenheit).  Sunday's mark and last year's record obliterate the previous record of 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.224 degrees Fahrenheit), which itself was only a few years old, set in 2016.  Without human-caused climate change, records would be broken nowhere near as frequently, and new cold records would be set as often as hot ones.  "What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records," Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo 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."  While 2024 has been extremely warm, what kicked Sunday into new territory was a way toastier than usual Antarctic winter, according to Copernicus.  The same thing was happening on the southern continent last year when the record was set in early July.  But, it wasn't just a warmer Antarctica on Sunday.  Interior California baked with triple-digit heat, complicating more than two dozen fires in the U.S. West.  At the same time, Europe sweltered through its own deadly heat wave.  "It's certainly a worrying sign coming on the heels of 13 straight record setting months," said Berkley Earth climate scientist  Zeke Hausfather, who now estimates there's a 92% chance that 2024 will beat 2023 as the warmest year on record.  When will it ever end??  Looks as if it will continue to get warmer each and every year until I pass on to another world and life!  I guess I should be glad I wasn't just born yesterday!  Can''t imagine what life will be like in another 20 or 25 years from now.  Best of luck to all who I will leave behind!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy...I guess!