A new temperature record has been registered in Poland, breaking a more than 100-year-old record, with a provisional 40.5 degrees Celsius recorded in the border town of Słubice on the Oder river.
Although the initial reading still has to be officially confirmed, The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management spokeswoman Agnieszka Prasek said: "We can talk about a record."
Poland's previous high-temperature record had stood for more than a century.
In 1921, 40.2 degrees was measured near Opole in Silesia, which at the time belonged to the German Reich. Poland's highest temperature after World War II dated from 1994, also in Słubice, at 39.5 degrees.
Słubice is just over the Oder River from the eastern German town of Frankfurt an der Oder in the German state of Brandenburg. On Sunday, a new peak value was also measured for Germany in the Brandenburg district of Oder-Spree, according to preliminary data from Germany's Weather Service (DWD). The town of Neißemünde hit 41.7 degrees.
Two record highs in a row in the Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic, an all-time high for the second day in a row was measured on Sunday at 41.1 degrees, the state weather service CHMU said. For Saturday, meteorologists reported a value of 40.8 degrees, but corrected it later to 40.9.
The peak values were recorded in each case in Doksany in the Usti nad Labem region north of Prague. The previous record high in the Czech Republic of 40.4 degrees recorded in 2012.
In Slovakia, meteorologists had also expected new highs during the heatwave. On Sunday, temperatures of more than 39 degrees were recorded, one degree short of the record.
"The national temperature record held out," the SHMU weather service wrote on Facebook.
