“The intensity and extent of warmth in Europe right now is hard to comprehend,” tweeted Scott Duncan, a meteorologist based in London.
and provided yet another example of how human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of such extraordinary weather events.
Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist who tracks global weather extremes, called the event “totally insane” and “absolute madness” in text messages to the Capital Weather Gang. He wrote that some high night temperatures observed were uncommon even in mid-summer. Bilbao, Spain, reached 25.1 degrees, its hottest January day, while Trois-Ville, France, reached 24.9 degrees, a record for the month. It was among more than 100 records set across the country on Sunday, including 24 degrees in Dax, and 18.6 degrees at stations with data dating to the 1800s in Besançon and Châteauroux.
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