Records are being broken in Europe for temperatures and burned land. These graphics show the scale of the crisis
, a commercial weather data provider, found that seven of 28 European capital cities, including London, Rome and Dublin, had temperatures reach 40-year highs for June, July or both.
A further five capitals, including Paris and Madrid, came within 0.5C of previous monthly highest temperatures. Source: Visual Crossing, temperature data since 1980. Excludes a small number of figures from 1990, 1991, 1993, 2005 and 2020 that are known to be unverifiedthat the role of human-caused global heating in such hot weather appeared clear, and research shows that the chances of breaking 40C in the UK without it would be less than 0.1%.
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