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On 25 July, the Met Office announced that the United Kingdom had its hottest July day on record, with a temperature of 38.6 °C (101.5 °F) recorded in Rainham Kent. This beat the previous July record of 36.7 °C (98.1 °F) in 2015, and marked the second time in history that the UK had recorded a temperature higher than 38.5 °C (101.3 °F ...
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...
In July 2022, another heatwave brought extremely high temperatures to the UK, and on 19 July, the 16th anniversary of the 2006 36.5 °C (97.7 °F) July record, temperatures in excess of 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) were officially recorded for the first time in British history, and the highest recorded temperature of 40.3 °C (104.5 °F) in Coningsby ...
Last month was the warmest July on record for the last 175 years, ... up from 3.5% from early July. ... "Wildfire spread on those days was aided by the weather and the climate," Hoell said.
This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature.. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group, derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit.
A report from the Met Office suggests that temperatures may have reached 40.3 °C (104.5 °F) at Coningsby on 19 July, which is the first time the United Kingdom has exceeded 40 °C (104 °F). [ 136 ] [ needs update ] Ireland also recorded its hottest day since 1887 with temperatures exceeding 33.1 °C (92 °F) in Dublin . [ 137 ]
The costs of climate change are estimated to amount to €9.5 billion a year in 2050 (2% of Belgian GDP), mainly due to extreme heat, drought and flooding, while economics gains due to milder winters amount to approximately €3 billion a year (0.65% of GDP). [5] The country has committed to net zero by 2050. [6]
The weather station of Catenanuova, in Sicily, had a monthly mean of 31.5 °C (88.7 °F) in July 2003, with an absolute maximum of 46.0 °C (114.8 °F) on 17 July, with monthly mean maximum temperatures of 36.0 °C (96.8 °F), 38.9 °C (102.0 °F) and 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) in June, July, and August, respectively. [29]