Slight temperature drop makes Tuesday the world’s second-hottest day

(Ben Birchall/PA)

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 0.01C lower than Monday’s all-time high of 17.16C, which was .06C hotter than Sunday.