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EU monitor warns of 'new normal' following record temperatures in May

Records were broken in Britain, France, Ireland and Portugal last month as a "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa pushed temperatures well above normal levels across western Europe.

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00:00Europe experienced one of its hottest months on record last month under an unusually early heat wave that the EU's
00:07Copernicus Climate Change Service warned is becoming the new normal.
00:12According to the EU's Climate Monitor, May was the second hottest month on record globally,
00:18a month that saw Britain, France, Ireland and Portugal break their own records as a heat dome of warm air
00:26from northern Africa pushed temperatures well above normal levels.
00:30According to Copernicus, globally the average surface air temperature reached 15.81 degrees Celsius, second only to May 2024.
00:40The average sea surface temperature was also the second highest on record behind May 2024 as conditions shift towards the
00:49warming El Nino weather pattern.
00:52Forecast warned that the coming El Nino could be one of the strongest on record.
00:56Last week, the World Meteorological Organization warned El Nino has an 80% chance of developing between June and August,
01:05increasing the risk of extreme weather events.
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