Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth. Wednesday may break it.

WASHINGTON, July 5 (U.S.): The planet warmed Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and possibly much longer, and Wednesday could become the third day in a row that Earth has unofficially set a record high, the latest In a series of climate change checks on this alarm, it does not surprise scientists.

The globe averaged 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday, according to the University of Maine Reanalyzer, a popular tool based on satellite data and computer simulations used by climate scientists to look at the state of the world.

On Monday, the average temperature was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit (17.01 degrees Celsius), breaking a record that only stood for 24 hours, according to the Associated Press.

Although it’s not an official NOAA record, “it shows us an indication of where we are now,” said Sarah Kapnick, NOAA’s chief scientist.

Although the data set used for the unofficial record only dates back to 1979, she said that given other data, it was probably the hottest day in “several hundred years that we’ve had.”

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