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‘It’s getting hotter and it’s not stopping’: dealing with the heat in five of Europe’s capitals
Unseasonably high temperatures in May have caused heat records to be broken across Europe, with Madrid, Paris, London, Dublin, and Berlin experiencing conditions more typical of summer. Météo France attributes this to a 'heat dome' and notes human-caused climate change is intensifying extreme weather events.
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