Germany hit a record 41.5C on Saturday, provisional data from the national weather service (DWD) showed, marking a new all-time high.
The reading was recorded at the Drewitz station in eastern Germany, a DWD spokesperson told AFP, breaking the previous record of 41.3C set just a day earlier in Saarbruecken in the southwest.
Denmark records hottest day on record at 37C
Denmark recorded its highest temperature on record on Saturday, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) said.
Around 2:00 pm (1200 GMT), DMI said in a post to X that “with 36.6C north of Odense, we have the warmest day ever since measurements began in 1874,”
With a sense of foreboding, it noted “the day isn’t over yet…”
“The record lasted exactly one hour,” DMI said in a later post.
“Now 37.0C has been measured at Odum north of Aarhus. And counting…”
The previous record temperature in the Scandinavian country was
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