Western Europe | Pakistan

Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record last month as a searing heatwave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat extremes, the European Union’s (EU) climate monitor said Thursday. The report comes as a new heatwave is battering Europe this week, following a record-breaking one in June and an unusually early spring hot spell in May. The average temperature in western Europe reached 20.74 degrees Celsius in June, more than 3℃ above the 1991-2020 norm, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. It broke the region’s previous record set in June 2025. “We will see more heatwaves in a warmer world,” said Samantha Burgess, strategic climate lead at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which operates Copernicus. “They will be more intense and they will last longer, and they will impact more geographical areas,” Burgess told AFP. It was the second hottest June on record for the world and for Europe as a whole, Copernicus said, as hum...