(SA) – Europe’s record-breaking heatwave last week, it turns out, was the emphatic conclusion to the hottest June ever recorded. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), a satellite agency that keeps tabs on Europe’s weather for the European Union, reported that the global average temperature for June was the highest on record for that month. Average temperatures for most of France, Germany, and northern Spain during the heatwave were up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) above normal.
Temperatures in France exceeded 114 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) on Friday. “We knew June was hot in Europe, but this study shows that temperature records haven’t just been broken. They have been obliterated,” Hannah Cloke, a researcher at the University of Reading, told The Independent. The agency’s findings caught the attention of climate-change scientists and public figures alike. “European satellite agency concludes that June was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, our planet,” the author Bill McKibben tweeted. READ MORE
