06/09/2024 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 6 September, the European Commission’s climate change observatory, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), announced that the summer of 2024 (June-August) was the hottest on record. In Europe, the average land temperature was 1.54°C higher than the 1991-2020 average, breaking the record set in 2022. The continent showed a variety of weather contrasts: western and northern Europe experienced wetter-than-normal conditions, while most of the...