Two women cool themselves down in the Trocadero Fountain near the Eiffel Tower in Paris during a heatwave on 28 June 2019. The temperature in France on 28 June 2019 surpassed 45 degrees Celsius for the first time on record. Photo: AFP

Paris braces for record heat as Europe scorched again

22 July 2019 (AFP) – Parisians were bracing on Monday for potentially the hottest ever temperature in the French capital this week as a new heatwave blasted into northern Europe that could set records in several countries. Temperatures were already topping 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday in Paris, but the mercury could […]

Temperature forecast for Europe, 25 July 2019. Graphic: Wetterzentrale

Germany braces for fourth heatwave of summer – “That is not normal anymore. It’s everything other than normal.”

22 July 2019 (The Local) – Temperatures could exceed 38C in some parts of the Bundesrepublik this week during a record fourth summer heat wave. On Thursday temperatures around Germany will spike to up 38C – reigning in the fourth heat wave of the summer. Due to climate change, says Latif, there is double the […]

Predicted temperature anomaly over Europe for 26 July 2019. Graphic; MetDesk / WXCHARTS

Intense heat with near-record breaking temperatures will develop across Benelux, W Germany and N France this week, 23-26 July 2019 – Temperatures above 40°C locally possible

22 July 2019 (SWE) – A development of another potentially record-breaking heat wave is expected this week. Again, similar to the late June intense and record-breaking heat wave for S France, extreme heat will spread across western Europe. We could actually see additional new record-breaking temperature values, precisely across parts of NE France, Benelux and […]

One of sixty-six giraffes arrives in central China’s Henan Province in the early hours of Sunday, 15 October 2017, on a chartered flight from Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo: Henan Daily

Scientists declare Masai giraffes “Endangered” – “We have to regulate the international giraffe trade or risk losing one of our planet’s most remarkable animals”

WASHINGTON, 11 July 2019 (Center for Biological Diversity) – Highlighting the need for global action to fight giraffes’ silent extinction, a body of scientific experts today declared giraffes in Kenya and Tanzania — called Masai giraffes — endangered. Masai giraffes, one of nine giraffe subspecies, had long been considered a key population for the species. But […]

Combined land and ocean temperature anomalies in June in Europe, 1910-2019. 26–30 June 2019 brought the greatest June heat wave in European history. Hundreds of stations with a long-term period of record (POR) set their all-time June maximum temperature records. Graphic: James P. Galasyn / NOAA

June 2019: Earth’s hottest June on record and greatest June heat wave in European history

By Dr. Jeff Masters 18 July 2019 (Weather Underground) – June 2019 was the planet’s warmest June since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Tuesday. NASA also rated June 2019 as the warmest June on record, well of ahead of the previous record set in 2015. The global heat in June […]

Central American migrants stand on a raft to cross the Suchiate River from Guatemala to Mexico, with the Tacana volcano in the background, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexicoin, early morning on 10 June 2019. A record 71 million people were forcibly displaced around the world in 2018, according to a report last month by the United Nations refugee agency, in places as diverse as Turkey, Uganda, Bangladesh, and Peru. Photo: Marco Ugarte / AP Photo

From Libya to Texas, tragedies illustrate plight of migrants

By Lori Hinnant and Jamey Keaten 6 July 2019 GENEVA (AP) – They are trapped in squalid detention centers on Libya’s front lines. They wash up on the banks of the Rio Grande. They sink without a trace — in the Mediterranean, in the Pacific or in waterways they can’t even name. A handful fall […]

The rank of the highest 3-day averaged mean temperature in June 2019. Dark red shows where it was the warmest 3-day heat wave in June since 1950, bright red the second-highest, etc. Graphic: E-OBS

Global warming made record-breaking June 2019 European heatwave at least five times likelier – “This is a strong reminder again that climate change is happening here and now. It is not a problem for our kids only.”

By Damian Carrington 2 July 2019 (The Guardian) – The record-breaking heatwave that struck France and other European nations in June was made at least five – and possibly 100 – times more likely by climate change, scientists have calculated. Such heatwaves are also about 4C hotter than a century ago, the researchers say. Furthermore, the […]

Map showing the anomalies in temperature (°C) estimated from ERA5 during the 5-day period of 25-29 June 2019. Graphic: ECMWF / Copernicus Climate Change Service

June 2019 hottest ever recorded on Earth – “Temperature records haven’t just been broken. They have been obliterated.”

By Conrad Duncan 2 July 2019 (The Independent) – Last month was the hottest June ever recorded, the EU’s satellite agency has announced. Data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the EU, showed that the global-average temperature for June 2019 was […]

Aerial view of people cooling off at a lake in Haltern am See, western Germany, on 26 June 2019. Temperatures in Gemany reached as high as 38.6°C that day, setting a new all-time German heat record for June that had stood since 1947. That record was beaten again on Sunday, 30 June 2019, with a 39.6°C reading at river Saale. Photo: Ina Fassbender / AFP / Getty Images

European heat wave shifts east, all-time heat records tumble in Germany – “For all practical purposes, the heat wave is caused by human-made global warming”

By Dr. Jeff Masters 1 July 2019 (Weather Underground) – More than 30 locations in Central Europe—including towns and cities in Denmark, France, Germany, and Poland—set all-time heat records on Sunday as the continent’s historic June heat wave of 2019 shifted eastward. Three nations set all-time heat records for the month of June on Sunday: […]

Triathlete Jan Frodeno of Germany tries to cool down on his way to win the Ironman triathlon European Championships in Frankfurt, Germany, 30 June 2019. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach / REUTERS

Europe heatwave burns on, two cyclists die from record temperatures – “It felt like a race against global warming. You could have fried an egg on my head.”

By Gus Trompiz and Joan Faus 30 June 2019 PARIS/MADRID (Reuters) – A four-day heatwave across western Europe that killed seven people began to ease slightly on Sunday, as temperature alerts were cut back and wildfires slowly brought under control. Most of the fires that had broken out Spain in recent days were stabilized, but […]

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