Europe’s intense spring heatwave showed how quickly climate extremes had become “the new normal”, scientists said, after the month of May broke a series of national records and was the second warmest globally.
The EU’s Earth observation service Copernicus said the speed of the swing from cooler-than-average temperatures to high temperatures in western countries had given people, crops and ecosystems little time to acclimatise.
The UK, France, Ireland and Portugal experienced particularly severe conditions last month. Spain had 101 heat-related deaths, the highest for the month since monitoring began. In France and the UK, drownings were more common as people sought relief in unfamiliar waters.
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