The increased temperatures in June affected nearly 800 million people across over a dozen nations in Europe, Asia and Africaread more<\/p>\n
In an alarming development, a new analysis published by news agency AFP has revealed that the month of June was the hottest month ever recorded in a dozen nations this year, spanning from Japan in the east to Spain in Europe. Along with that, the temperature in 26 other nations remained \u201cexceptionally warm,\u201d the analysis based on data from the European monitor Copernicus has revealed.<\/p>\n
The increased temperatures affected nearly 800 million people across these nations, mostly in Europe, Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n
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The month was second-hottest for other nations, including Britain, China, France, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n A late June heatwave baked western and southern Europe, with scorching temperatures hitting Paris, Belgium, and the Netherlands\u2014regions unaccustomed to such heat.<\/p>\n About 15 countries, including Switzerland, Italy, and all Balkan nations, saw temperatures 3\u00b0C above the 1981\u20132010 June average.<\/p>\n Spain, Bosnia, and Montenegro recorded their hottest June ever.<\/p>\n Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n Japan also endured its hottest June since records began in 1898, with 14 cities logging record highs.<\/p>\n Coastal waters were 1.2\u00b0C warmer than usual, tying with June 2024 as the warmest since 1982, according to Japan\u2019s weather agency on July 1.<\/p>\n Last year, Japan\u2019s summer matched 2023 as the hottest on record, followed by the warmest autumn in 126 years.<\/p>\n Warmer climates are causing Japan\u2019s cherry trees to bloom earlier or fail to fully blossom due to insufficiently cold autumns and winters, experts say.<\/p>\n South Korea and North Korea also recorded their warmest June ever, with temperatures 2\u00b0C above average.<\/p>\n In China, 102 weather stations reported their hottest June day, some exceeding 40\u00b0C, per state media.<\/p>\n Pakistan (250 million people) and Tajikistan (10 million people) hit record June highs. This followed an exceptionally hot spring in Central Asia, with Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan experiencing their warmest April\u2013June on record.<\/p>\n Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n In Nigeria, the world\u2019s sixth most populous nation with 230 million people, June temperatures matched the record highs set in 2024.<\/p>\n Central and eastern Africa also faced extreme heat, with June marking the second hottest month on record after 2024 in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The increased temperatures in June affected nearly 800 million people across over a dozen nations in Europe, Asia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[95748,95747,2311,2000,299,91835,1984,95744,95745,95746,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-247149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-africa-heatwave","9":"tag-asia-heatwave","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-europe-heatwave","14":"tag-global-warming","15":"tag-hottest-month-ever-recorded","16":"tag-june-heatwave","17":"tag-record-temperatures","18":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114815895238234047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}