The monthly report from the Copernicus European Meteorological Service, released on Thursday (10), revealed that the summer of 2026 was the hottest ever recorded in Western Europe. According to scientist Samantha Burgess from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, living beings had not experienced such high temperatures for at least 100,000 years.
The phenomenon was not limited to Europe. From Tokyo to New York, passing through Rome, the summer of 2026 was marked by extreme temperatures throughout the Northern Hemisphere. According to Copernicus, the period between June and August was the hottest ever recorded on a global scale, tied with 2024 data.
On Wednesday (9), the American Meteorological Agency announced similar conclusions, based on 130 years of measurements in the United States. Other climate data sources also allow scientists to support conclusions about much more remote periods, indicating that the current period is likely the hottest on Earth in the last 125,000 years.
