Doha, Qatar: The number of global commercial flights set an all-time high on July 6, coinciding with the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
According to live flight tracker FlightRadar24, July 6 was the busiest day for the tracking agency, with 134,386 commercial flights recorded.
The flight tracking agency noted that they use an average estimate of 100 people per flight, which would suggest that the number of passengers on that particular day was would have exceeded 13 million.
10,000 of recorded July 6 flights as per FlightRadar24 were private jets.
The agency also showed almost no commercial flight activity over several locations across the world, including Ukraine and Sudan, both of which are currently experiencing heavy armed conflict, as well as a portion of China.
Coincidentally, the hottest temperature planet Earth has ever experienced was also recorded on July 6.
Data shared by the University of Maine in the United States showed that the global average temperature for July 6 was 17.23°C (63F), surpassing the previous high reading of 17.18°C (62.9F) on July 4 and 5.
The previously recorded highest average temperature was measured as 16.9 C (62.4 F) in 2016, NASA reported.
The US space agency noted that the Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were “the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.”
“2016 is remarkably the third record year in a row in this series,” NASA quoted Godard Institute for Space Studies Director Gavin Schmidt. “We don’t expect record years every year, but the ongoing long-term warming trend is clear.”
