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Record-breaking heat: Monday was world’s hottest day

A child enjoys a cooling mist at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo after Japan's government issued heatstroke alerts in 39 of the country's 47 prefectures [Issei Kato/Reuters]

The European Union’s climate monitor says Monday was the world’s hottest day on record after it inched past Sunday’s high as swaths of Europe, Asia and North America experienced blistering temperatures.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Wednesday that the global average surface air temperature on July 22 rose to 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit) – or 0.06 degrees Celsius higher than the record set just a day earlier.

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