Europe's hottest summer 'caused record heat stress'
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A record 52% of Europe was exposed to intense heat stress during the exceptionally hot summer that seared the continent this year, the EU's climate monitor has said.
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According to the European Copernicus service, the average summer temperature reached 21.7°C, well above average, and river flows dropped to their lowest levels in more than 30 years. Yet European Union member states continued to invest in fossil fuels.
A record 52% of Europe was exposed to intense heat stress during the exceptionally hot summer that seared the continent this year, the EU's climate monitor has said.
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- May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future (opens The Guardian in a new tab)
EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average The scorching heat that persistently baked western Europe this summer was the worst on record, a report has found, with more than half the continent seared by “very strong” heat stress that felt hotter than 38C…
- Summer 2026 was hottest on record in Western Europe, yet still no political awakening (opens Le Monde (English) in a new tab)
According to the European Copernicus service, the average summer temperature reached 21.7°C, well above average, and river flows dropped to their lowest levels in more than 30 years. Yet European Union member states continued to invest in fossil fuels.
- More than half of Europe faced intense summer heat stress, EU monitor says (opens France 24 in a new tab)
A record 52% of Europe faced intense heat stress this summer, the EU’s climate monitor said Friday, as climate change fuelled widespread heatwaves and tens of thousands of excess deaths. Europe recorded its third warmest summer, while western Europe experienced its hottest, with several countries setting national…
- Europe's hottest summer 'caused record heat stress' (opens RTÉ News in a new tab)
A record 52% of Europe was exposed to intense heat stress during the exceptionally hot summer that seared the continent this year, the EU's climate monitor has said.
- More than half of Europe exposed to extreme heat stress this summer (opens RFI in a new tab)
A record 52 percent of the European continent was exposed to intense heat stress during the summer of 2026, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service. The season saw Europe experience four of its 10 worst heatwaves on record.
- Heat deaths in Western Europe top 34,600 during warmest summer ever (opens The Straits Times in a new tab)
The average temperatures for the region was 2.5 deg C above the average between 1991 and 2020.
