Heatwave scorches east Europe as Slovakia, Czechia see record temperatures
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Some 130 million people in Central and Eastern Europe endure temperatures above 35C (95F) as heat records set.
Europe’s deadly heatwave has broken records in the east of the continent, with Czechia and Slovakia recording their highest-ever temperatures, and Ukraine ordering power cuts to deal with the strain.
Slovakia recorded a high of 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday in the village of Turna nad Bodvou, southwest of the country’s second-largest city, Kosice.
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Czechia reached 41.9C (107.42F) in Doksany in the country’s northwest on Sunday evening, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute said. The previous record was 40.4C (104.72F) in 2021.
“Breaking the record by 1.5 °C is absolutely unprecedented,” the institute noted, adding that the “length of the heatwave is also exceptional”.
In Hungary, temperatures reached 41.8C (107.24F) in the centre of the country on Monday, just shy of its highest-ever record of 41.9C (107.42F) in July 2007.
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