Western Europe officially experienced its hottest June on record, as scientists warned such an “exceptional heatwave” was likely to become more frequent and intense because of climate change exacerbating extremes of heat, dryness, cold and wet around the world.
Even as the global average temperature for June was slightly cooler than a year before as some parts of the southern hemisphere endured a colder winter, the overall global temperature rise was still tracking at 1.55C above pre-industrial levels for the 12 months to the end of June.
But the average temperature in western Europe was a high 2.81C above the 1991-2020 average at 20.49C in June, according to Copernicus Climate Change Service, Europe’s earth observation service.
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