The UN announced Monday that the 48.8C recorded on the Italian island of Sicily in 2021 had been verified as the European high temperature record, against which the current heatwave will be measured.
The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization keeps the World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive and painstakingly verifies any claimed records including for temperature, rainfall, aridity, wind speeds and"WMO has accepted a new temperature record for continental Europe of 48.8 degrees Celsius measured in Sicily on August 11, 2021,""A committee of experts has verified the accuracy of the temperature reading, but has not yet published the full report.
However, given the current extreme heat being witnessed in Europe it announced that the 2021 temperature recorded in Sicily had now been confirmed as the current European continental temperature record. "If there are any new extreme temperature records during the ongoing heatwaves, we will issue a quick preliminary assessment and then start detailed evaluations as part of our painstaking verification process," Randall Cerveny, the WMO's weather and climate extremes rapporteur, said in a statement.
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