Western Europe records hottest June on record, EU scientists say
Copernicus said average temperatures reached 20.74 degrees Celsius as the heatwave closed schools, disrupted power and fueled wildfires across Europe.
- On Thursday, the Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record, averaging a little over 69 degrees Fahrenheit, or nearly 5.5 degrees above average.
- Samantha Burgess, a climate expert at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said June's conditions "underscored how profoundly the climate is changing," with a warming climate system accumulating heat and the Pacific Ocean El Niño cycle influencing global weather patterns.
- The heat resulted in more than 1,300 deaths across Europe, with France recording about 1,000 excess deaths mainly in elderly residents. Wildfires in southern France burned through more than 11,000 acres as of Monday, forcing roughly 10,000 evacuations.
- Kurt Shickman of the World Resources Institute warned that high nighttime temperatures prevent bodily recovery, stating "the body isn't able to recover sufficiently." Adaptation measures could have reduced heat-related deaths by as much as 75 percent.
- According to the World Weather Attribution initiative, climate change is driving a "new, dangerous norm" that would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, with the current El Niño potentially intensifying extreme weather through spring 2027.
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Copernicus has pointed out that a heat wave hit much of Europe during the second half of June that broke Mensua temperature records...
Climate change broke records again in Europe, with a historic June due to its high temperatures.
June was the warmest on record in Western Europe, with an average temperature of 20.74°C. Europe as a whole experienced its second warmest June, and globally the month was also the second warmest on record. The world's oceans are also historically warm, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Information Service (C3S) said in a report.
Western Europe records hottest June on record,
Western Europe just experienced its warmest June on record, EU scientists confirmed on Thursday, after an extreme heatwave at the end of the month smashed temperature records, disrupted power supplies and shut schools. Last month was also the second-warmest June globally, and the planet experienced the highest June sea surface…
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