Scientists have warned that mild temperatures in parts of Europe’s this winter are an extreme weather event caused by climate change — on a par with the heatwaves that hit the continent last summer.
They said that Europeans are ill-prepared for such extremes, which they predict will probably become the norm after 2050.
Temperatures close to 19°C were recorded in the Polish capital Warsaw on New Year’s Day, while across the border in Belarus, they reached 16.4°C — 4.5°C higher than the previous record.
In Paris, temperatures were 5.5°C higher than average between December 19 and January 2.
