Europe experiences its hottest summer on record in 2024
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The summer of 2024 has been recorded as the hottest in Europe's history, according to a report by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The average temperatures from June to August were 1.54 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 baseline. This surpasses the previous record set in 2022 by 0.2 degrees Celsius. Southern and eastern Europe experienced the most severe heatwaves, with temperatures often exceeding 40 degrees Celsius.