48.8 ° C: The highest temperature in European history recorded in Sicily

Amid intense heat in the Mediterranean, Italy has a European temperature record of 48.8 ° C. This figure was recorded at a monitoring station in the city of Syracuse, Sicily, according to The Guardian.

Now the World Meteorological Organization is checking the data of Italian meteorologists - this is a formality necessary for the official confirmation of the record. If the information is accepted, this temperature will be declared the highest ever recorded in Europe. The previous one - a record of 48 ° C - was set in Athens in 1977.

Intense heat is now present in most of northern Africa and southern Europe. Temperature records have already been broken in Canada, the western United States, Finland, Estonia, Turkey and Moscow. Unprecedented floods swept across Germany and parts of China. Unheard of fires are blazing in the Siberian taiga. We are seeing radical climate change as hot areas get hotter and humid areas even wetter, according to meteorologists.