The 2018 European drought and heat wave was a period of unusually hot weather that led to record-breaking temperatures and wildfires in many parts of Europe during the spring and summer of 2018. It is part of a larger heat wave affecting the Northern Hemisphere, caused in part by the jet stream being weaker than usual, allowing hot high-pressure air to linger in the same place.
The 2018 European drought and heat wave was a period of unusually hot weather that led to record-breaking temperatures and wildfires in many parts of Europe during the spring and summer of 2018. It is part of a larger heat wave affecting the Northern Hemisphere, caused in part by the jet stream being weaker than usual, allowing hot high-pressure air to linger in the same place.
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