July in Greece hottest on record: observatory
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Athens: Greece s national observatory on Monday said the country had recorded its warmest July on record, weeks after setting a similar milestone for...
Athens: Greece's national observatory on Monday said the country had recorded its warmest July on record, weeks after setting a similar milestone for June.
Average temperatures between 1960 and 2024 have increased by 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 Fahrenheit) in the Mediterranean country, the observatory said on its meteo.gr website.
Three of the four warmest July temperatures of the past 80 years have been recorded in the last four years, it said.
"According to preliminary meteorological data... July 2024 was the warmest on record for Greece," it said.
The figures exceeded the previous record, set in July 2012, by 0.3 degrees Celsius (0.54 Fahrenheit), the observatory said.