I just posted a pretty ignorant comment then lol. When they talk about breaking records during a season, imo to narrow down to a specific day is essentially meaningless when you’re still in that season.
It wasn’t ignorant, just a common mistake.
And considering they do it with the intent of alarmism, they are doing it to deceive anyways.
And you’re correct that the record high for ONE day is not statistically significant. Sometimes I’m even surprised at how low a record high was for a particular day. It’s just the luck of the draw.