Record-breaking heatwave in Europe – New records in England, France and Spain

New records
Record-breaking heatwave in Europe

Europe is currently experiencing an extraordinary heatwave. Temperature records are being broken from the Iberian Peninsula through France to the UK.

Split image showing a person cooling off in fountains beneath the Eiffel Tower on the left and a western Europe temperature map on the right highlighting extreme heat, with 40.9°C at Paris-Longchamp and 36.4°C at Yeovilton.

Scorching heat in Western Europe: new records were set in Paris and southern England.

These record figures have already been recorded:

France: 44.3 °C in

Pissos

(south of Bordeaux) – Paris records 40.9 °C in June for the first time

UK: 36.4 °C in

Yeovilton

, Somerset – a new national record for June

UK: 36.6 °C in

Cardiff

- a new record minimum temperature for June

The record-breaking heatwave will continue to move eastwards towards Central Europe over the weekend. Temperatures will rise to over 35 °C in many parts of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany. In Germany, temperatures could even exceed 40 °C.

On Sunday, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, and Hungary could also come close to the 40 °C mark.

The current heatwave shows once again the direction in which things are heading: climate change is making periods of extreme heat more frequent and more intense. And summer has only just begun.