According to AFP, the Austrian National Meteorological Agency on August 4 (local time) recorded a record temperature of 41 degrees Celsius in Stammersdorf, northeastern Vienna.
This temperature exceeded the 40.8 degrees Celsius previously recorded during the day and broke the 40.5 degrees Celsius record set on August 8, 2013 in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, eastern Austria.
High temperatures in the context of Austria experiencing an unusual heat wave with low rainfall, causing many localities to continuously record record-breaking temperatures.
The meteorological agency said that last month was the 4th hottest July in the history recorded in this country. At some monitoring stations, rainfall shortages reached 90%.
Austrian Minister of Agriculture Norbert Totschnig warned that drought has made grasslands barren, causing increasing difficulties for farmers in providing feed for livestock.
Apricots in Austria begin to ripen about 20 days earlier than the average in the period 1961-1991, showing the impact of global warming on crops.
In Bratislava, Slovakia on August 4, the highest temperature ever was recorded, reaching 40.8 degrees Celsius. This number broke the record of 39.9 degrees Celsius set just one day earlier, according to the country's meteorological agency.
According to experts, climate change is making droughts in Europe more serious this summer, as extreme heat increases drought in many areas.
