The US government has no long-term daily temperature day for most of the planet, yet they determined that July 3rd was the “world’s hottest day.”
2:35 AM · Jul 5, 2023
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/figures/station-counts-1891-1920-temp.png
The vast majority of NOAA’s daily temperature data is from the US, where July 3 was the 49th hottest since 1895.