09 July, 2015

Multi-day European heatwave takes Germany to all time heat high


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et another significant temperature record has fallen amid Europe’s intense, multi-day heatwave.

The scorching temperatures shifted to eastern Europe over the weekend after beginning in Spain, France and the U.K. early last week.

On Sunday, the German weather service Deutscher Wetterdienst announced that a new all-time hot temperature record was confirmed for the country. At 3:40 p.m. local time, Kitzingen, Germany reached a scorching high temperature of 104.5 degrees (40.3 degrees Celsius), breaking the old national temperature record of 104.4 degrees (40.2 degrees Celsius) which was previously set in 1983 and twice in 2003.

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