This yr’s summer season was the most well liked ever recorded in Europe, the European local weather statement service Copernicus mentioned Thursday.

The typical temperature in Europe was the very best on report for each your entire summer season — from June to August — and the month of August, in keeping with knowledge revealed by the service.

Summer season temperatures outranked the summer season of 2021 by a margin of 0.4 levels Celsius; the month of August was 0.8C hotter than in 2018.

The month of August was additionally typically “a lot drier than common in a lot of western and components of jap Europe” however “wetter-than common over most of Scandinavia and components of southern and southeastern Europe,” in keeping with Copernicus.

“An intense sequence of warmth waves throughout Europe paired with unusually dry circumstances, have led to a summer season of extremes with data when it comes to temperature, drought and fireplace exercise in lots of components of Europe,” mentioned Freja Vamborg, senior scientist for the service, mentioning that the earlier summer season temperature report in Europe was just one yr previous.

Globally, the month of August was the joint third warmest August on report, with the common temperature 0.3C greater than the 1991-2020 common for the month.

The previous seven years have been the most well liked years ever recorded, in keeping with knowledge launched by Copernicus in January.