The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service warns of a ‘new normal’ following record temperatures in May.
10 June 2026
Records were broken in Britain, France, Ireland and Portugal.
The “unusually early and intense heatwave demonstrates how quickly climate extremes are becoming the new normal rather than the exception”, said Samantha Burgess at the European Centre for Medium–Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which operates Copernicus.
The “unusually early and intense heatwave demonstrates how quickly climate extremes are becoming the new normal rather than the exception”, said Samantha Burgess at the European Centre for Medium–Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which operates Copernicus.