Tuesday, May 26, 2026

EUROPE Late May Heat Wave

For late May, this is a historic, record-shattering heatwave. An extraordinary thermodynamic plume sends a massive core of extreme warmth over Spain, Portugal, Ireland, the UK, France, and Germany. Temperatures are soaring by 12-16 °C above long-term climatological norms.

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Heat Dome Update: Europe Braces for Record-Breaking Late May Heatwave

By Author Marko Korosec
Posted on Published: 25/05/2026
Categories Global weather

Europe is facing a dramatic synoptic turnaround sweeping across the continent, driven by a powerful upper-level subtropical ridge building northward from Africa. A classic, highly anomalous and powerful Heat Dome has parked over Western and Central Europe.

This atmospheric block acts as a physical lid, trapping a subsiding air mass beneath it. The intense solar radiation combined with compression forces the air, intensifying heat towards the surface. . .

Over the past weekend, record-breaking temperatures were already being recorded across parts of Western Europe.

Weather stations recorded the UK’s hottest May day in nearly 80 years, with London hitting 32.3 °C.
Meanwhile, the southern and southwestern regions of Portugal, Spain, and France are experiencing extreme daytime highs of 35°C to 38°C. Italy recorded 31-34 °C on Sunday; it was 30-33 °C in Germany, around the Alps, and in parts of the Balkans.

This final week of May 2026, the temperatures across Western Europe will be around 12-16 °C above the long-term average, which is staggeringly high for late May.

Historic Heat Dome delivers record-shaterring late-May heatwave to Europe

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The Stratos Project --- UTAH MASSIVE DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT | RA Media

More than 600 Utahns flooded the steps of the state Capitol on Saturday to demand a halt to the Stratos Project, a massive data center development in Box Elder County that critics say was rubber-stamped by local officials without proper environmental review and with no regard for the state's already strained water supply.

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The project, championed by Canadian entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" personality Kevin O'Leary, would eventually span thousands of acres and draw enormous amounts of power and water from a region that can barely afford to spare either.

The Great Salt Lake is already shrinking at an alarming rate, and opponents argue that fast-tracking a development of this scale without comprehensive environmental studies is reckless governance at its worst. . .

The Box Elder County Commission approved the project on May 4th, a decision that has since ignited a grassroots uprising that crosses party lines. Attendees at Saturday's rally came from across the state, from the Idaho border all the way down to Payson, and every single person KSL interviewed said they drove themselves there and were not paid to attend.

O'Leary has repeatedly tried to dismiss the opposition as outside agitators and paid protesters with ties to foreign interests, but that narrative collapsed on contact with reality at Saturday's rally. Sign after sign was held by lifelong Utahns, including one voter who said he actually supported Gov. Spencer Cox in the last election but has grown deeply frustrated with how the administration has handled the project. .

The opposition has formalized into organized referendum efforts, voter registration drives, and a growing coalition under the Box Elder Accountability Referendum group, known as BEAR. Organizers say there are more than 20 proposed data centers currently eyeing Utah, and they intend to fight every one