Austria noticed its highest-ever recorded variety of heat-related deaths this June and July, the nation’s well being company mentioned Sunday, as Europe reels from a summer time of brutal heatwaves.
The AGES company mentioned these two months noticed 646 heat-related deaths, as in comparison with the earlier excessive of 570 in June and July 2024.
The figures are calculated utilizing a statistical mannequin analysing extra mortality.
Scientific specialists say that human-made local weather change has made excessive climate occasions extra intense and extra frequent, and Europe has develop into the globe’s fastest-warming continent.
Austria, like a lot of the remainder of the continent, has seen data tumble on this summer time’s heatwaves and drought.
A brand new temperature report of 41.2C was set at Unhealthy Deutsch-Altenburg in japanese Austria in early August, beating a earlier excessive of 41C recorded in Vienna only a day earlier.
