The United Nations has announced that the 48.8C (119.8F) recorded on the Italian island of Sicily in 2021 had been verified as the European high-temperature record, against which the current heatwave will be measured.
The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) keeps the World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive and verifies any claimed records – including for temperature, rainfall, aridity, wind speeds and lightning.
“WMO has accepted a new temperature record for continental Europe of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit) measured in Sicily on August 11, 2021,” the Geneva-based organisation said.
“A committee of experts has verified the accuracy of the temperature reading, but has not yet published the full report. It is possible that this record may be broken in the coming days as the heatwave intensifies.”
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Publish date : 2023-07-17 03:00:00
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