It's 'the most extreme event ever seen in European climatology,' said one climatologist. 'Nothing stands close to this.'
"The intensity and extent of warmth in Europe right now is hard to comprehend," meteorologist Scott Duncanof London. "There are too many records to count. Literally thousands. Overnight minimum temperatures are like summer."Bilbao in northern Spain reached 24.9°C, the hottest temperature recorded for the city in January and more akin to a summer's day than the start of the year. Records were broken throughout Germany, including Dresden in the east where it was 13.
;“The New Year's heatwave stands as "the most extreme event ever in European climatology." \nIn Poland, the old January record was broken before sunrise--in one town it was 65.7 degrees at 4 a.m., which is warmer than its average low temperature in midsummer \nhttps://t.co/FKa0NGBgbJ;”
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