Western Europe records its hottest June on record, says EU climate monitor

According to France 24, the European Union's climate monitor reported today that Western Europe just lived through its hottest June on record. Officials say a punishing heatwave rolled across what they call the world's fastest-warming continent, with a so-called heat dome — a high-pressure system that sits over a region like a lid on a boiling pot — trapping the heat and driving several countries to all-time and monthly temperature records.

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