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Western Europe breaks the 2003 record with the warmest summer since records began

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A bather protects himself from the heat, a beach in Barcelona, this Thursday in which Catalonia remains installed in extreme heat
A bather protects himself from the heat this summer on a beach in Barcelona. MARTA PÉREZ / EFE
02/10/2026 - 10:08 h
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This summer has been the hottest ever recorded in Western Europe, with an average temperature of 21.7 ºC, that is, 2.5 ºC above the average for the 1991-2020 period, as reported this Friday by Copernicus.

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