"They will be more intense and they will last longer," Samantha Burgess, strategic climate lead at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Several countries experienced all-time highs in June as Europeans endured unprecedented heat and dangerously elevated overnight temperatures.

A new report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service also found that June temperatures in Western Europe were nearly 5.5 degrees above average.

Western Europe records its hottest June: EU climate monitor