Soaring temperatures broke records in Germany, France, Britain and the Netherlan...
PARIS/LONDON - Soaring temperatures broke records in Germany, France, Britain and the Netherlands on Thursday, as a heatwave gripped Europe for the second time in a month in what scientists said were becoming more frequent events as the planet heats up.
An all-time high was measured in Germany for a second day running, at 41.5 degrees Celsius in the northwestern town of Lingen - similar temperatures to those in some Gulf Arab capitals on Thursday. “It’s very hot at the moment. I saw 42 degrees is forecast for today,” said 19-year-old French tourist Ombeline Massot in the capital’s Montmartre district, where visitors drank chilled bottles of water and fanned themselves.
This was the second highest temperature recorded in the country. The hottest day, in August 2003, saw 38.5 C . A Met Office study found that a heatwave like one that broke records last year was 30 times more likely to occur than in 1750, because of the high amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Since the pre-industrial period the Earth’s surface temperature has risen by 1 degree Celsius.
In northern Poland, toxic algae in the Baltic sea led to the closure of more than 15 beaches this summer, authorities said.
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