4 resultsfor “predictions for summer heat in Europe 2024”
predicting that records will be broken. A spokesperson said: “Today will be the hottest day in May in the UK in our temperature records, with highs of 35C expected. The current May record
summer of record heat drove enormous demand for air conditioning, allowing fossil fuels to grow as well as renewables. Ember, however, pointed out that the world has outperformed expectations as it rises to meet
2024, [summer heat](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03954-7) in the EU claimed roughly three times more lives than [car crashes](https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/ed29ad84-b2f1-429e-97ca-2b713e7dc1b1_en?filename=ERSOnext_AnnualReport_20260323.pdf), 16 times more than [murderers](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Crime_statistics), and more than 10,000 times
Europe and the US is [at its lowest ever level](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/public-support-for-israel-in-western-europe-lowest-ever-recorded-yougov). Israeli public opinion, meanwhile, has [shifted further right](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-887526). For today’s First Edition, I spoke to ***Dahlia Scheindlin