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European heat wave
Climate Change

Europe’s Historic Heat Dome: Inside the Continent’s Most Extreme Summer on Record

Europe is in the grip of what scientists are calling its most severe heatwave ever recorded — a stagnant ‘Omega Block’ of high pressure trapping scorching Saharan air across the continent. France logged its hottest day since 1947, the UK shattered a 50-year-old June record, and researchers say the extreme heat would have been ‘virtually impossible’ just decades ago.

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