The summer months of June through August were warmer across Europe than at any point since records began. This was announced today by the EU's climate change service, Copernicus.

According to the Copernicus statement, the average temperature exceeded previous record highs from 2018 and 2021 by a considerable margin — by 0.8 degrees Celsius in August and 0.4 degrees across the summer as a whole (June to August).

In the south-west of the continent in particular, where temperatures had already been high in June and July, they were significantly above the reference period of 1991 to 2020 in August. But temperatures were also above average across much of the east.

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