{"id":114489,"date":"2026-08-12T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/114489\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:20:18","slug":"current-swiss-summer-has-broken-many-2003-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/114489\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Swiss summer has broken many 2003 records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/960ec06d527688345f8e4fe8df8a6ef9f65ef5ee-91884732.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Record-breaking temperatures make 2026 the hottest summer since records began\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Record-breaking temperatures make 2026 the hottest summer since records began            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        The Swiss summer of 2026 has already broken many of the temperature records set in 2003, the weather service Meteonews announced.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 12, 2026 &#8211; 12:53\n<\/p>\n<p>The current summer has so far notched up higher temperatures, more days of extreme heat and more tropical nights in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The average temperature so far this summer has been around 0.7 degrees Celcius higher than that of the summer of 2003, which had  previously been the hottest summer since records began in 1864.<\/p>\n<p>The number of hot days with temperatures above 30 degrees was also higher at most measuring stations. Basel, for example, has recorded 45 hot days so far, compared with 41 in the whole of summer 2003. In Geneva, however, the 2003 record has not yet been reached.<\/p>\n<p>The weather stations in Zurich, Basel and Lucerne also recorded new all-time temperature records. Basel also recorded 17 very hot days above 35 degrees, more than in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In many places, the number of tropical nights \u2013 with minimum temperatures above 20 degrees \u2013 was also significantly higher. Lugano has experienced 50 such nights so far, three more than in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786533618_59_722106570_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"A man walks across a park in London on August 9, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Climate adaptation\n        <\/p>\n<p>        As heatwaves rise, Swiss climate concerns fall    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Aug 11, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Despite heatwaves and wildfires across Europe, most Swiss consumers say climate concerns do not influence their spending or investment decisions.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/climate-adaptation\/as-heatwaves-rise-swiss-climate-concerns-fall\/91879025\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: As heatwaves rise, Swiss climate concerns fall<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record-breaking temperatures make 2026 the hottest summer since records began Keystone-SDA The Swiss summer of 2026 has already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,454,100,103,17,876],"class_list":["post-114489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-climate-adaptation","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-switzerland","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117082274340928395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}