Austria records hottest summer in 260 years
Austria has experienced its hottest summer since records began 260 years ago, with record temperatures and exceptionally low rainfall following a dry spring.
Austria has witnessed its hottest summer in over 260 years, marked by soaring temperatures and an unusually dry season. The Austrian meteorological service, GeoSphere Austria, revealed that the average air temperature this summer was 2.6°C above the long-term average from 1991-2020 and a staggering 4.4°C higher than the 1961-1990 baseline.
Record temperatures broke at well over 100 monitoring stations, with the first time since records commenced that they surpassed the 41°C mark. Rainfall during the summer months was notably deficient, recording nearly one-third less than the usual annual average, making this one of the five driest summers since observations began in 1858.
This situation was further exacerbated by an exceptionally dry spring, resulting in the country's lowest rainfall in 169 years during the first eight months of the year.
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