Drier soils may turn late summer into prolonged extreme heat

PHYSorg
Aug 18, 2026, 9:20 am99 pts
The summers of recent years have been hot, but not unusual from a meteorological perspective. According to researchers at Leipzig University, though, the next extreme summer would far exceed anything we have experienced so far.

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