The latest findings come during a summer which has seen heat records smashed across the continent.
Parts of Europe are warming faster than climate models have predicted, with the continent experiencing a spike in the number of days with extreme heat, scientists have said.Geophysical Research Letters
The study also found that European summers have become hotter overall while winters also warmed and saw a 50 percent reduction in extreme cold days over the course of the study period. Furthermore, cold extremes have warmed by more than 3 degrees Celsius, according to the researchers. The latest findings come during a summer which has seen heat records smashed in Europe. France recorded its hottest day ever—46 degrees celsius —near the southern city of Montpellier on June 28 during a heatwave which struck the continent at the end of that month, according to Meteo-France.
"We wanted to investigate if we are able to detect a warming trend in temperature extremes from observed station data," Lorenz told."We analyzed observed station data over Europe and aggregated them over relatively large regions. We looked at the top 1 percent hottest days and heat stress days and the bottom 1 percent coldest days as well as for each year, the hottest day or coldest night per year and looked how these changed over time.
"The results were that the detected trend signal was even more pronounced than for temperature alone. And that we were able to demonstrate that changes in hot and cold extremes over Europe are larger than changes in seasonal means, not everywhere but for example in Central Europe the signal is very clear. These results are actually not surprising, but what we would expect due to climate change," Lorenz said.
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