Evropa përjetoi verën më të nxehtë këtë vit dhe temperaturat në Mesdhe thyen rekordet me diferenca të mëdha. Ashtu si pjesa më e madhe e Hemisferës Veriore, Evropa u godit nga ngjarjet ekstreme të motit gjatë muajve të fundit, përfshirë nivelet rekord të shiut që shkaktuan përmbytje vdekjeprurëse në Gjermani dhe Belgjikë, si dhe valët e nxehtësisë që kontribuan në zjarret në jug të rajonit.
The average temperature from the beginning of June to the end of August was about 0.1 degrees Celsius higher than the previous hottest summers, that of 2010 and 2018, a relatively small increase. But it was a total of 1 degree above the 1991-2020 average, reflecting the long-term trend of man-made global warming.
2020 was also the hottest year for Europe as a whole.
Italy recorded a temperature of 48.8 degrees C on August 11 in Sicily. If verified by the World Meteorological Organization, this would be the hottest day ever recorded in Europe. The hottest temperature before that was 48.0 C in Athens, Greece, in 1977.
Temperatures in Greenland over the weekend of August 14-15 rose above freezing levels for the third time in less than a decade, causing 7 billion tonnes of rain to fall across Greenland in three days - the largest amount since beginning of registrations in 1950.
There is no longer any doubt that man-made climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and more intense.
