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Europe's record temperatures: Trouble ahead

 

Europe is having a record warm winter after a summer marked by heatwaves and drought, and it's causing worries deeper than the closing of many ski resorts for lack of snow.

Several European countries had record-breaking temperatures around the New Year, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). WMO says hundreds of European weather stations have logged all-time highest daily temperatures for the months of December or January as part of ongoing climate change.

Paradoxically, the increase in temperatures is more marked in winter in the normally colder north, and in summer in the normally hotter south, where extremes are becoming more frequent.

The continuing changes have major implications for agriculture and for shipping along the continent's rivers, as well as the big effect: Less snow in winter means less water in reservoirs next summer.

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