Global temperatures have dropped slightly after breaking the all-time heat record the two previous days.
BENGALURU, India — Global temperatures dropped a minuscule amount after two days of record highs, making Tuesday only the world’s second-hottest day ever.that Tuesday’s global average temperature was 0.01 Celsius lower than Monday’s all-time high of 17.16 degrees Celsius ,
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“This has been, I mean, probably the shortest-lived record ever,” Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said Wednesday, after his agency calculated that Monday had beaten Sunday’s mark. And he predicted that mark would also quickly fall. “We are in uncharted territory.
“Unfortunately people are going to die and those deaths are preventable,” said Kristie Ebi, a public health and climate professor at the University of Washington. “Heat is called the silent killer for a reason. People often don’t know they’re in trouble with heat until it’s too late.”“At some point, the accumulated heat internally becomes too much, then your cells and your organs start to warm up,” Ebi said.of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
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