WEATHER

The weather these days is breaking records in Europe. The peak will come over the weekend, with the warmest temperatures in southern Europe. As reported by several European news portals, magazines and weather stations, this week the temperature rose above 30 degrees, simultaneously in several regions of Europe. "It's hot in Germany - especially in the west and south, temperatures reached up to 33 degrees," meteorologist Jan Schenk explained in an interview with FOCUS online.

Geneva, 11 April - The world's leading climate research institutions, the EU's Copernicus programme and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), predict that the oceans are entering an El Niño phase. This means that their surface temperatures will rise. The oceans have been in a La Niña phase for the past two years, which cools surface temperatures. However, sea temperatures have still been very high. In March, the global sea surface temperature was 20.97 degrees, the sec