Switzerland sees hottest and driest summer on record

With just over half the average rainfall, the period from April to July was the hottest and driest on record in Switzerland since records began in 1901. MeteoSwiss reported this on Thursday in collaboration with the environment ministry and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL). The national average temperature was 2.7°C above the 1991-2020 average. Rainfall, meanwhile, reached just 54% of the norm, with even lower levels recorded in the Jura region (45%) a...

By swissinfo.ch