The duration of heatwaves in Western Europe has doubled since 1880, a study has shown.
The authors of the research also discovered that the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century.
The study shows that many previous assessments of daily summer temperature change underestimated heatwaves in Western Europe by about 30%.
The research appears in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres.
The team found that heatwaves lasted an average of three days now, with some lasting up to 13 days. This compares with an average of about 1.5 days in 1880.
Paul Della-Marta, from MeteoSwiss in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues analysed daily maximum temperature data from 54 recording stations across Europe.
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