Denmark recorded its highest temperature on record on Saturday, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) said, as the country was hit by a heatwave that has already plagued Europe.\n<\/p>\n
DMI initially posted on X around 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) that \u201cwith 36.6C north of Odense, we have the warmest day ever since measurements began in 1874.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
With a sense of foreboding, it noted \u201cthe day isn\u2019t over yet\u2026\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe record lasted exactly one hour,\u201d DMI said in a later post, announcing the new record was set at 37.0C<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a new heat record for the absolute highest temperature ever measured in Denmark. Today, 37.0 degrees was recorded both in Beldringe, north of Odense, and in Odum, north of Aarhus,\u201d DMI meteorologist Rasmus Stoltze Hansen said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n
The previous record temperature in the Scandinavian country was 36.4C in August 1975.\n<\/p>\n
DMI had warned that the record could be broken as a heatwave swept over the Scandinavian country.<\/p>\n
Throngs of people in Denmark\u2019s capital Copenhagen were seeking to cool off around fountains or by jumping in the water in the harbour.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m feeling a bit better now, but yeah I\u2019m slowly melting away,\u201d 26-year-old environmental engineer Lasse Fjeldgaard told AFP just after getting out of the water in Copenhagen\u2019s harbour.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone is built for these kinds of temperatures really. You\u2019ve just got to stay hydrated and stay in the shade and watch out for your friends and strangers,\u201d said Serine Helland, a 28-year-old consultant from Norway living in Copenhagen.\n<\/p>\n
The heat record also coincided with the opening of the Roskilde music festival, and one attendant told public broadcaster DR that dragging his luggage to the campsite was \u201cunbearable\u201d. <\/p>\n
DR reported that the festival had set up extra water stations for the some 50,000 festival attendees.\n<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018Matter of time\u2019 \u2013\n<\/p>\n
Peter Tanev, meteorologist for broadcaster TV2, noted that for years scientists had anticipated that the record would be broken.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been aware that the risk would be there \u2014 among other things because of global warming,\u201d Tanev said in a comment.\n<\/p>\n
He added that the severe heatwaves that have become a part of European summers now and then also hit Denmark.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe question right now is, how long this record will stand. It\u2019s probably only a matter of time before we reach 40 degrees in Denmark,\u201d Tanev wrote.\n<\/p>\n
A number of other countries have been crushing records in recent days amid the deadly heatwave sweeping Europe.\n<\/p>\n
An AFP analysis suggested almost 200 million would face temperatures of more than 35C on Saturday as an unprecedented hot spell that has already seen records tumble in Britain, France, Switzerland drags on.\n<\/p>\n
Scores of people have died either through heat-related illness or drowning accidents, and emergency services in several countries have said their facilities are saturated.\n<\/p>\n
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