Temperature records will exceed ’50° Celsius in Europe in the future’ says WMO
By AFP
22 August 2021 |
10:57 am
The World Meteorological Organisation's head of applied climate services Bob Stefanski says the organisation is seeking to verify a temperature record in Sicily of 48.8 degrees Celsius and that temperature records for continental Europe may exceed 50 degrees Celsius in the future.
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