UN confirms temperature record of 48.8°C in continental Europe. Previous record was 48.0°C recorded in Greece on July 10, 1977 in Athens and Eleusis.
The WMO carefully checks the data as well as the instruments and conditions in which they were recorded before confirming a record. The potential records presented to the WMO are "snapshots of our current climate and it is possible, even likely, that even more severe extremes will occur in the future in Europe", added Professor Cerveny.