Slight Temperature Drop Makes Tuesday The World's Second-Hottest Day
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Global temperatures have dropped slightly after breaking the all-time heat record the two previous days.
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Global temperatures dropped a minuscule amount after two days of record highs, making Tuesday only the world’s second-hottest day ever.
The European climate service Copernicus calculated that Tuesday’s global average temperature was 0.01 Celsius (0.01 Fahrenheit) lower than Monday’s all-time high of 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.8 degrees Fahrenheit), which was .06 degrees Celsius hotter (0.1 degrees Fahrenheit) than Sunday.
All three days were hotter than Earth’s previous hottest day in 2023.
“The steady drumbeat of hottest-day-ever records and near-records is concerning for three main reasons. The first is that heat is a killer. The second is that the health impacts of heat waves become much more serious when events persist. The third is that the hottest-day records this year are a surprise,” said Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field.
Field said high temperatures usually occur during El Nino years — a natural warming of the equatorial Pacific that triggers weather extremes across the globe — but the last El Nino ended in April.
