
A tourist holds an umbrella to protect themselves from the sun during a heatwave near the Eiffel Tower at the Trocadero square, in Paris, on June 30, 2025. — AFP
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EU climate monitor Coopernicks said Wednesday that Western Europe recorded its hottest on record last month in June, as “extreme” temperatures blew up the region in punishing heatwaves.
Globally, it was the third hottest in the record last June, continuing a sparkling wave of heat in recent years as the emission of humanity of greenhouse gases results in the planet.
Coopernax climate change service (C3S) said the previous highest was in June 2024 and the second most hottest was in 2023.
Especially in Europe, the fastest boundaries were pronounced, which is several times faster than the global average.
In some parts of the continent, millions of people suffered from heat pressure because the daily average temperature was rarely seen in Western Europe – and never happened in the early summer.
Coopernax said that many countries recorded a temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius in Spain and Portugal with a heat of 46C.
Samantha Burgess, the EU monitoring strategic lead for climate, said the effects of the heatwave in Europe were “extraordinary”, which intensified through surface levels in the Western Mediterranean.
“In the hot world, heatwave is likely to affect more often, more severe and more people all over Europe,” he said.
Two heatwaves – from June 17 to 22, and then from June 30 to July 2 – were linked to the heat dome by trapping hot air in the affected areas, prolonging high -speed weather, and spoiling pollution and forest fires.
Most parts of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and the Balkan saw some of the hottest “feel” temperatures, which measure the effects on the human body, keeping in view the moisture.
Coopernax said the maximum temperature in the north of Lisbon is removed 48C, which is associated with an average of 7C and “extreme heat pressure”.
The sea level in the Western Mediterranean was “abnormally” a month, which is more than an average of 5C in some areas, the temperature rises to record 27C on June 30.
Coopernax said that the high temperatures of water reduced the cooling of the air at night along the coast, played a more important role in moisture, and damaged the marine life.
Heat, fire and floods
AFP analysis based on Copernax data revealed that 12 countries around the world and about 790 million people experienced a record heat last month.
According to state media, dangerous heat has been emptied in China, while in China, 102 seasonal stations logged in the hottest day of June, some of which are above 40C.
In June, a category of the extreme weather was seen all over the world.
Destructive forest fires flashed in Canada and parts of southern Europe, while in the deadly floods of South Africa, China and Pakistan.
Coopernus said it was dry than average in some parts of Western Europe, while parts were seen in North America, East and South Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Central and East Asia and parts of South America.
Parts in the world that saw the situation over average were part of South America, China and South Brazil.
Construction of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment-which comes mostly from burning fuel-means that the average temperature of the planet has risen over time. This increase in baseline temperature means that when the heatwave arrives, the temperature can rise in the higher peaks.
At least 2,300 people died
A sharp scientific analysis published on Wednesday states that about 2,300 people were killed in 12 European cities during a severe heatwave ending last week.
The study was targeted for 10 days, ending July 2, during which large parts of Western Europe suffered severe heat, which violated the temperature of 40 degrees Celsius (104 ° F) in Spain, and a forest fire broke out in France.
According to a study conducted by Scientists at the Imperial College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1,300 deaths were linked to climate change, which made the heatwave further tightening.
“The climate change has made it much hot than that,” said Dr. Ben Clark, a researcher at Imperial College London.
The study covered 12 cities, including Barcelona, Madrid, London and Milan, where researchers said climate change increased the temperature of the heatwave to 4 degrees Celsius.
According to new research, researchers from European Health Organization in 2023 said that in 2022, Europe’s sharp heatwave could have killed a maximum of 61,000 people, suggesting that countries’ heat preparation efforts are decreasing.
The limits of warming
Burning of foam fuel is widely driven by global warming, not just about the rising temperature, but also the effects of extra heat knocking on the environment and the oceans.
Hot air can prevent excessive water vapors, and hot oceans mean more, resulting in more heavy rainfall and storms.
Coopernix is based on billions of measurements from satellite, ship, aircraft and seasonal stations.
It has recorded extraordinary temperatures in the last two years.
Although it was partially suppressed due to hot El Nano conditions, the temperature remained at the record or nearby record levels even after the end of the year.
Coopernax said that the industrial period was June 1.3C before June-the current estimate of the current global warming.
But in recent years, the extreme of temperatures means that in the last 24, there is only one of the three months, which has drowned below 1.5C warming.
In the Paris climate agreement, countries agreed to try to limit long -term global warming to 1.5C, which makes it more likely to be large and lasting climate and environmental changes.
But now many scientists say that with the expectation of a violation of 2030 or before, it would be almost impossible to stay below the level, which faces the unprecedented challenge of trying to bring the world back to heat.
Extra input from Reuters