Heatwaves in the Czech Republic in Charts: It's Already Clear that the Summer Will Go Down in History

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The year 2026 is not over yet, but it is already certain that it will go down in the history of meteorology in the Czech Republic. Hot weather broke absolute records, previously extremely rare temperatures above 40 °C were measured within five days, and heat waves even affected areas where they did not occur in the past. Given long-term trends, this may be a harbinger of the weather in the future.

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On the weekend of June 27th and 28th, absolute temperature records were broken in the Czech Republic. At the meteorological station in Doksany in the Ústí nad Labem region, they measured 40.9 degrees Celsius that Saturday. But a new record was broken the day later, exactly one degree higher. And it was in the last week of June and the first week of July that the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) recorded an increased number of deaths.