Heatwave: summer 2022 was the hottest ever recorded in Europe

This summer is the hottest on record in Europe, said Copernicus, the European climate change service. “The average temperatures were the highest, both for the month of August and the entire summer” has just revealed Copernicus in a press release, this Thursday, September 8. In June, July and August, temperatures exceeded the 1991-2020 average by 1.34° C, and the previous record for 2021 by 0.4° C, said the European climate change service. 2003, 2010, 2018 among the hottest Copernicus, which has been collecting meteorological data since 1979, was able to observe that the summers of 2010 and 2018 were exceeded by 0.5° C and that of 2003 – when a heat wave had raged – by 0, 6%. A summer of extremes The heat wave and drought in Europe “led to a summer of extremes, with records in terms of temperatures, drought and fires”, explained the head of the scientific service from the European Freja Vamborg Institute. She adds that the drought and fires in many parts of Europe have affected society and nature in various ways”. Europe is not alone Europe is not the only one affected by high heat. Western Canada and the United States also experienced very high temperatures.In Antarctica, temperatures were well above and below average distributed on and around the continent.