Smashed temperature records, wildfires and broiling soil are revealed in satellite data as Europe swelters in an extreme heatwave that is set to exacerbate a months-long drought.

Meteorologists are forecasting temperatures to climb even higher later this week and into the weekend, raising concerns that Europe’s current record of 48.8C, set in Sicily in August 2021, may ...

Heatwaves, wildfires, flooding and loss of snow and ice are all on course to be exacerbated in Europe as average temperatures across the continent have increased at twice the global average over ...

Many areas of Europe have been consistently above 40C since mid-April - and these are just air temperatures. New data shows the ground is even hotter; this matters because of a weather phenomenon ...

The map showed a land temperature — the temperature of the soil, rather than of the air — in the Extremadura region in Spain’s inner southwest hit a staggering 60C on Tuesday.

Figure 2: Air temperature and soil moisture in Europe during recent mega-heatwave summers. a ... The hot summer of 2010: Redrawing the temperature record map of Europe. Science 332, 220–224 (2011).

The temperature map shows a continuation of hot and warm air flows for the UK through to next week. Dailymotion. UK and Europe temperature forecast map for the rest of May 2025.

While mean ground temperatures are generally close to the air temperatures, they can sometimes be higher as the soil in summer can trap more heat. However, a surface land temperature of 60C is ...

Hydrosat, a geospatial data startup, has secured $10 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ground temperature analytics product.. The company aims to collect surface ...