It doesn’t seem to say if it is average temperature.
Cyprus and Greece have hit 46 and 48 C respectively before, so this reads a bit sensationalist or dishonest maybe? Just pointing at the average temperature increasing would have sufficed.
Not downplaying 40 degrees at all, I grew up in the Mediterranean and am well familiar with the summers and it wasn’t news that we hit 40. The news used to be about 43 … and so on.
>It doesn’t seem to say if it is average temperature.
The article: "Seeing temperatures", which implies 'max'
40C is high but not uncommon for Greece, 33C in Sofia is far from the highest temps recorded in mid July. The global warming is bad as it gets, yet reporting like that doesn't help the cause.
Cyprus and Greece have hit 46 and 48 C respectively before, so this reads a bit sensationalist or dishonest maybe? Just pointing at the average temperature increasing would have sufficed.
Not downplaying 40 degrees at all, I grew up in the Mediterranean and am well familiar with the summers and it wasn’t news that we hit 40. The news used to be about 43 … and so on.