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RE: Well..it’s official. A new temperature record has been recorded in the Netherlands. ...
It's been quite warm here, too, but not particularly hot. Today's maximum in Lahti, about 80 kms north of the south coast of Finland was 27 C. Balmy and nice. Last summer's maximum was 33 C here and 34 C nationally. The all time national record is 37.2 C from 2010. It was measured in near Joensuu in close to the Russian border in the far east of the southern part of the country. According to the forecast, Saturday's maximum will be 31 C.
Where was the Dutch all time record measured today? Maastricht?
It was measured in Gilze-Rijen. They expect even more heat today.
I spent a couple of weeks in Maastricht when I was attending the European Go Congress in the last week of July and the first week of August in 1994. It was unusually hot back then with daily maxima around 35 C.
The whole of Western Europe was covered by a red hot mass of air in the weather map yesterday. I guess it'll be more trips to McDonald's.