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Europe swelters through record heat as drought and wildfires intensify

Western Europe has endured its hottest June-July period on record, with extreme heat, drought and wildfires gripping parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The WMO says the warming climate is making heatwaves more frequent, intense, longer and more widespread.

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00:00Western Europe has experienced its hottest June-July period on record as extreme heat, drought and wildfires continue to affect
00:08large parts of Northern Hemisphere.
00:10The World Meteorological Organization says July was also among the two warmest Julys ever recorded globally with temperatures 1.47
00:20degrees Celsius above the estimated pre-industrial level.
00:24Sea surface temperatures also reached a record high for July.
00:27Joining us here at the regular press...
00:30Extreme heat is becoming more frequent, more intense, it's lasting longer and covering much wider areas than in the cooler
00:36climates of the past.
00:37Looking back in time, June 1976 is a really good example because June 1976 had a very similar pattern of
00:43high and low pressure, warmer and cooler areas to this year.
00:47But the picture for 1976 is one of a few isolated areas of above average temperatures in a much cooler
00:54world.
00:54And in 2026, the picture is reversed, it's one of a much warmer world with a few isolated areas of
01:00below average temperatures.
01:01Several Western European countries face another heat wave with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius expected.
01:08Scientists warn that longer, more intense heat is increasingly becoming the new climate reality.
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01:19Back to the potent is February of one of��code it in the column that is Ken and President economies of
01:19the pre- Gustavism Island.
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