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2021 was Europe's warmest summer on record

People cooling off in the Trocadero fountains across from the Eiffel Tower are reflected in sunglasses in Paris as a new heatwave broke temperature records in France

The previous warmest summers, 2010 and 2018, were 0.1C cooler. Image: REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

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