Western Europe Sees Hottest June on Record Amid Extreme Heatwaves

Western Europe sweltered through its hottest June on record last month, as "extreme" temperatures blasted the region in punishing back-to-back heatwaves, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said Wednesday. From a report: Globally, this past June was the third warmest on record, continuing a blistering heat streak in recent years as the planet warms as a result of humanity's emissions of greenhouse gases. The previous hottest June was in 2024 and the second hottest was in 2023, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said. Sweltering extremes were particularly pronounced in Europe, which is warming several times faster than the global average.

Ruh Row /. Trigger Alert

[zawarski]

In the order of /. triggers, I would rank climate somewhere between DEI and UBI.

Re:Ruh Row /. Trigger Alert

[ArchieBunker]

Get ready for arguments of bad measurements or data manipulation. We've had accurate thermometers for several centuries now and if the data is indeed manipulated then why doesn't someone run new models to disprove the current results? You'd be a MAGA hero and prove all those nasty liberals wrong.

crickets

Yep thought so.

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[smooth wombat]

It's like people claiming protestors are being paid to protest Trump or his cabal. If they're sure people are getting paid, why not sign up, get paid, and tell everyone the truth?

crickets

Weather vs Climate

[Roger W Moore]

Get ready for arguments of bad measurements or data manipulation.

No, just misleading presentation of the data. The headline should be "Europe breaks record for Hottest June 3 times in 3 years". Breaking one record is just weather, breaking two might be considered unlucky but when you break the same record over 3 consecutive years it's hard to see how that is not a very clear signal for climate change.

That's my biggest beef about the media reporting on climate change. They do not understand the difference between weather and climate and they tend to focus on reporting the weather as "evidence" of climate. Indeed, as this article shows, even when they are literally sitting on clear data that show significant climate change what they choose to focus on is how hot it was last month!

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[Hodr]

I think the data-manipulation argument isn't about how accurate thermometers are, it's about how accurate satellite temperature readings are (especially when they so often conflict with local thermometer based readings).

I would expect discussion on this post to center around the fact that localized data doesn't really mean anything when discussing overall "climate change". Parts of Australia and the west coast of the US are currently experiencing record breaking cold temperatures for June.

Might be true, but...

[GoTeam]

Every time slashdot posts a climate change story I lower my thermostat by 1 degree. Not denying anything, just being a dick

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[Geoffrey.landis]

Every time slashdot posts a climate change story I lower my thermostat by 1 degree.

Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin, and I'm sure you must have hit that already.

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[XanC]

0 Kelvin, not 0 degrees Kelvin. In practice his limit is likely 0 Rankine.

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[dbialac]

Not only that, in practice, his batting average is also 0.00.

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[GoTeam]

Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin, and I'm sure you must have hit that already.

Nah, just add a window unit [imgur.com] and start dropping the temp on it each time.

The Cause of Global Warming?

[Roger W Moore]

Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin

Yes you can [wikipedia.org] but it is really hard to achieve and it is something hotter than any positive temperature since the higher energy states are more likely to be populated than lower energy ones. Indeed, if the OP has achieved this it's possible they might actually be the cause of global warming...

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[registrations_suck]

Every time slashdot posts a climate change story I lower my thermostat by 1 degree.

Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin, and I'm sure you must have hit that already.

Especially since the Kelvin scale doesn't even HAVE degrees.

You cant go below a million "degrees Kelvin" either.

Air Conditioner Sales

[registrations_suck]

I wonder how they're doing in the EU these days.

Heat pumps (Re:Air Conditioner Sales)

[MacMann]

I wonder how they're doing in the EU these days.

Heat pumps are air conditioners and there's been incentives inside Europe to get more heat pumps, be that government subsidies, high natural gas prices, or heat waves. I found a couple articles with a quick search of the web.
From April 2025: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hea... [yahoo.com]
From September 2024: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hea... [yahoo.com]

It appears to me the primary driver to heat pump sales is natural gas prices. If things get worse with shipping LNG to Europe then natural gas prices will increase. With that will

The "record" only goes back 75 years

[MallardDuck]

According to the actual report, the data only goes back to 1950, so "hottest on record" is somewhat meaningless.

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[Knightman]

Not really, because the data actually goes back to 1850 and the 1850-1900 average temperature is used as a pre-industrial baseline which most reports use. There's also no real need to present data before 1950 about anomalies and extremes covering the majority of Europe since they are very few and can be counted as outliers.

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[Waffle Iron]

It sure is a pity that there's not multiple types of evidence from biological and geological data that corroborates and extends thermometer readings.

Oh wait, there is.

Let me save you the effort of your predictable reply: "I don't believe any of it. It's all bullshitt!!!!!!! Naah naah!!!"

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[dbialac]

Uhm... no. Temperatures were abnormally cool in the 1960s into the early 1970s, so they're not a good baseline. Mind you, all of that pollution might have actually been cooling the planet, but I digress. Going back to the 1850s doesn't, either. When you properly account for things like variations in the earths orbit and tilt, you get a baseline number, and you need 30 samples to get an accurate sample. Given the tilt and orbit variations, you get one sample every 30,000 years. Thus, you need 900,000 years o

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[dbialac]

I forgot to bring up the whole thing with sulfur in the exhaust of ship fuel. How far along is the process of restoring the clouds this created, that in turn cooled the earth? It seems the climate change people could learn from software engineers and have a rollback process in place for major screw ups like this. For those not familiar with it, there was an article on, IIRC, science.org in June 2023 talking about this. It may have been science.com, but I'm pretty certain it's the former.

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[znrt]

obligatory:

https://media.tenor.com/GElyvu... [tenor.com]

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[F.Ultra]

Why so focused on Spain and Portugal? Anders Celsius created a calibrated thermometer in 1743 that have been used to measure the temperature in Uppsala, Sweden with records going back to 1722 (then Celsius used various thermometers in parallel to get precise values before his invention of the calibrated thermometer 21 years later).

Waiting for the next two months

[JamesTRexx]

I didn't have much trouble with this month but then I live in a cooler part of The Netherlands. I care more about night time temperatures though. As long as they are low I can open up all windows and use a couple of fans to force hotter air out or cooler in.
We'll have to see how the next two months will turn out.

Luckily I have seen less mosquitos at night as well (thanks for degrading the bio diversity) to bother me. Speaking of which, I also noticed a significant drop in the presence of spiders this year. I guess they don't do well on a reduced food intake diet.

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[evil_aaronm]

Have you noticed a reduction of insects in general? I don't see many lightning bugs, for example, and normally, during the warmer months, the windshield splatter is nearly impossible to see-through. But lately, I can drive all day and my windshield is fine at the end of the drive. While that's nice, I worry that it portends something more dire.

Bugs (Re:Waiting for the next two months)

[MacMann]

I have doubts that bugs hitting windshields is a reliable metric for insect populations.

It seems to me that there's been considerable improvements in aerodynamics on vehicles that create an invisible "force field" of airflow across the glass that keeps the bugs from hitting the windshield. This was known decades ago with add-on bug screens that could be bolted to the front of the hood to divert air and decrease bugs hitting the windshield. Some were better than others, but even the worse of them would hel

Guess we'd better get hot ...

[cascadingstylesheet]

... and figure out technological remedies. Like scrubbing and sequestering CO2, and going nuclear.

Or we could just emote and blame. But that doesn't seem terribly effective.