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Western Europe saw its hottest June on record as two massive heatwaves swept across the continent, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said.
Average temperatures reached 20.49 degrees Celsius, above the previous record of 20.43 degrees in 2003.
"June 2025 saw an exceptional heatwave affecting large parts of Western Europe, with most of the region experiencing very severe heat stress," said Samantha Burgess from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which runs the EU service.
"This heatwave was made more intense by record sea surface temperatures in the western Mediterranean. In a warming world, heatwaves are likely to become more frequent, more intense and affect more people across Europe ," she added.
Globally, the month was the third warmest June ever recorded, after 2023 and 2024, with average surface air temperatures of 16.46 degrees.
The report found that air temperatures in June 2025 were above average in large parts of western and central Europe.
Two severe heat waves hit large parts of western and southern Europe in mid-June and at the end of the month.
An extraordinary marine heatwave developed in the western Mediterranean, leading to the highest average daily sea surface temperature ever measured in the region, at 27 degrees Celsius.
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