Temperature records shattered in Europe as deadly heatwave moves east
Key takeaways
- Preliminary all-time temperature records were set on Saturday in Germany, Denmark and the Czech Republic, and a new mark for the month of June in Switzerland.
- It’s a health crisis,” Katrin Goering-Eckardt, a German federal lawmaker and former leader of the Green Party, said on X.
- Such was the heat in Berlin, where temperatures climbed to 39 C on Saturday, that police deployed two water cannons across the city to spray mist onto people looking for relief.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize From Scandinavia to the Alps, Europeans endured sweltering conditions on Saturday as a heatwave linked to dozens of deaths spread east, shattering records with temperatures in some areas soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
Preliminary all-time temperature records were set on Saturday in Germany, Denmark and the Czech Republic, and a new mark for the month of June in Switzerland. Similar records have been broken earlier this week in France and Britain.
Scientists said the stifling heatwave would have been virtually impossible without man-made climate change, which has made this week’s night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been even two decades ago.