All-Time High Temperature Records For Germany, Belgium, Netherlands Fall Within 24 Hours
Temperature records have been broken in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium for the second-day running, and Paris has recorded its hottest day ever, as the second dangerous heatwave of summer 2019 continued to sear western Europe.
Wednesday’s Dutch record of 39.3C, set in Eindhoven, lasted until 2.40pm on Thursday, when a weather station at the Gilze-Rijen airbase, in the south of the country, registered 39.4C, the KNMI meteorological service said, climbing later to 40.4C. Belgium’s all-time high of 40.2C, set on Wednesday at Angleur, was surpassed at 3.05pm when the mercury hit 40.6C at the military base of Kleine Brogel near the Dutch border. The pre-2019 records in both countries were set in the 1940s.
temperature of 41.5C was measured in the north-western German town of Lingen on Thursday, one day after 40.5C was recorded in Geilenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Météo-France said the mercury at its Paris-Montsouris station in the French capital hit 40.6C (105F) just after 1.30pm local time on Thursday, breaking the previous high of 40.4C recorded in July 1947, and was continuing to climb.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/europe-heatwave-paris-forecast-record-hottest-ever-day
