Europe's summer heatwaves

The European heatwave of July 2023 in a longer-term context

Europe is experiencing some of the hottest temperatures of summer 2023 so far, as a 'heat dome' expands over the southern half of the ...

Overall, we estimated 62,862 heat-related deaths in Europe in 2022; 61,672 of those deaths occurred between 30 May and 4 September. Italy, Spain ...

Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe - The New York Times

Yet despite the forecast and increasing trend of excessive summer heat, demand is still high for destinations where temperatures reached 100 ...

Heatwave deaths increased across almost all Europe in 2023, says ...

A precise estimate of heat-related deaths is not yet available for 2023, but WMO noted that between 55,000 and 72,000 people died in heatwaves ...

Europe experiences widespread flooding and severe heatwaves in ...

It is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average rate. The three warmest years on record for ...

European summer 2023: a season of contrasting extremes

The European-average temperature for summer was 19.63°C which, at 0.83°C above average, was the fifth warmest for the summer season.

Extreme weather: floods, droughts and heatwaves

Heatwaves, floods, droughts and wildfires have become more common in Europe during summer months. August 2024 was the hottest August, summer ...

2023 European heatwaves - Wikipedia

In 2023, Europe had been affected by heat waves. The most significant of which was the named heat wave, Cerberus Heatwave, which brought the hottest ...

Heat waves in Europe are getting more dangerous. Here's ... - CNN

Interest in visiting hotter Mediterranean countries dropped in 2023 amid record heatwaves and wildfires, with more temperate destinations becoming increasingly ...

Heat extremes in Western Europe increasing faster than simulated ...

Over the last 70 years, extreme heat has been increasing at a disproportionate rate in Western Europe, compared to climate model simulations ...

Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 ...

July 2023 saw extreme heatwaves in several parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including the Southwest of the US and Mexico, Southern Europe and ...

Changing climate and Europe's summer

Without strong adaptation and mitigation actions, hundreds of thousands of people could die from heatwaves, and economic losses from coastal ...

than 47000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, report says

Researchers used death and temperature records from 35 European countries. They estimate that 47,690 died from causes related to high ...

Heatwave last summer killed 61000 people in Europe, research finds

Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds ... Searing heat killed more than 60,000 people in Europe last summer, ...

Study links Europe's summer 2022 heat waves to 61600 deaths - NPR

Researchers estimate that 61672 Europeans died from heat-related illness between late May and early September 2022. They're urging countries ...

Uneven evolution of regional European summer heatwaves under ...

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics and evolution of regional HWs covering the 1950 to 2021 period across different European ...

The European summer heatwave 2019 – a regional storyline ... - ESD

The present study focuses on the 2019 summer heatwaves over Central Europe. We demonstrate the added value of downscaling global storyline integrations, ...

Southern Europe bakes under heat wave as temperatures top 104F

A wave of hot air from Africa baked southern Europe and the Balkans and sent temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), with the worst ...

Nearly 62,000 people died from record-breaking heat in Europe last ...

Nearly 62000 people died heat-related deaths last year during Europe's hottest summer on record, a new study has found — more heartbreaking ...

Record-breaking Heat in the Summer of 2022 Caused more than ...

The summer of 2022 was the hottest summer ever recorded in Europe and was characterised by an intense series of record-breaking heat waves, droughts and ...