2024 August is described as the second hottest August in Switzerland since the record began in 1864, weather experts said on Friday.
The average temperature has been 17 degrees Celcius, 2.7 degrees above the normal 1991-2020 average.
According to MeteoSwiss, a new August record was set in Samedan, canton Graubünden, with an average temperature of 14.5 degrees. That was 0.3 degrees higher than the summer of 2003.
A new record was also set on the Jungfraujoch with a monthly average of 3.3 degrees.
The previous record was 3.0 degrees. In Lugano, the monthly average of 24.8 degrees was close to the recorded temperatures in 2003.
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